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Why Government Teacher Amy Messick Ran For School Board

Teaching American History

Teaching government at Hilliard Darby High School in Ohio (a suburb of Columbus), Amy Messick helps students understand how our constitutional system works. By August 2024 she would complete her degree in the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG ) program, giving her time for such an endeavor.

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Secrecy Encourages Careful Deliberation

Teaching American History

A Lesson from the Founders for Constitution Day Americans in our day think “transparency” in government essential to its efficient and wholesome operation. Postell studies American political institutions and their relationship to the modern administrative state.

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60th Anniversary of Freedom Summer

Teaching American History

The interest of the country is awakened and … the government responds.” Malik Ali, a James Madison Fellow and 2017 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, is Tukman Distinguished Teacher of History at the Branson School in Ross, California. Malik Ali teaching.

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Online learning can open doors for kids in juvenile jails

The Hechinger Report

According to state data, the number of young people in state juvenile justice facilities dropped from 901 at the end of 2012 to 386 in 2017. In Illinois, District 428 awarded 73 high school diplomas in 2017, up from 65 in 2013 when there were twice as many juveniles in the system and their average stay was longer.

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A university grapples with its links to slavery and racism

The Hechinger Report

Earlier in the school year, a white student came to the office of the Black Student Union, a space it shares with the student government, and told her she had no right to be there. “It based, actively working to address issues of race and inequality on college campuses and “the complicated legacies of slavery in modern American society.”.

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In Memoriam: Dr. Boris E. Ricks, Associate Professor of Political Science at California State University, Passes Away

Political Science Now

He also served on the Teaching and Learning Conference Program Committee from 2012 through 2017, helping to organize the structure and content of the meetings. His scholarship focused on the study of government, politics, and political actors, with an emphasis on their origins, foundations, and interactions with groups and individuals.

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Should student protests try to change a campus or change society?

The Hechinger Report

Since early 2017, students at Harvard have been pressing school administrators to sever the school’s financial ties to companies that support what they call the prison-industrial complex. In fall 2017, Harvard Ph.D. In 2017, black people went to prison at a rate that was nearly six times higher than white people. “We