Diane Ravitch

MAY 3, 2023

Civics education in Texas has been turned into textbook study by a 2021 law that bans student interaction with elected officials. Apparently, the Republicans who control state government want to keep students in the dark about getting involved in civic action.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

So Joffe created eLearn.fyi , a database of more than 300 online learning tools, including a civics curriculum founded by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and engineering lessons on how to build a robotic arm. “I realized that there was an opportunity sitting right in front of me,” she said. – DELECE SMITH-BARROW.

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MARCH 26, 2018

During the winter of 2017, after multiple meetings, including one with the renowned mindset researcher Chris Hulleman, a professor at the University of Virginia and the director of The Motivate Lab there, Gallin began to test a run of tweaks. “Then the question became: ‘What’s going on inside students’ heads and what do we do about that?’”

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JULY 13, 2020

Because those scores were then used to evaluate educators and decide which schools to shut down, testing has changed how math and reading are taught in classrooms and reduced or even eliminated topics that aren’t tested — from civics and science to art and music. This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.).

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NOVEMBER 19, 2017

History, and civics. In 2017, there are more than 250 inclusive college programs across the United States , and our students and families need our help to chart a course to making college dreams come true. I believe if teachers take the lead, we can create and sustain inclusive opportunities for children every day on our campuses.

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Political Science Now

JULY 28, 2024

How can political science educators scaffold productive civic dialogue on contentious political issues? She was recognized as the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Endowed Professor for 2017 – 2020. She also leads the RiceVotes Collective and teaches the Capstone course for the Certificate in Civic Leadership students.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

The only predominantly white college whose population in the fall of 2017 was at least a quarter black was Northwestern State University in Natchitoches. Enrollment dropped by more than 700 students between 2016 and 2017, and when Aviles arrived on campus that fall, he said he found “great anxiety” about the numbers.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

Volunteers who came to Mississippi after the initial June wave often assisted the ongoing civic and practical education taking place in “Freedom Schools.” Summer Project workers lived and worked in rented or donated spaces that became known as “ Freedom Houses. Jackson, MS. Visited on-site June 2024. SNCC Legacy Project. Malik Ali teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Then, in May 2017, a friend told her about a new Delta-based nonprofit, Regional Initiatives for Sustainable Education (RISE), which offered tutoring for the Praxis. William Carey University in Hattiesburg joined RISE’s efforts to help teachers become certified in October 2017. Her eyes welled with tears as she recalled the struggle.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

In the fall of 2017, he moved to Boston and enrolled in a community college, planning to transfer to a four-year program. But now some workforce organizations, researchers and regional civic leaders are pushing back — persuading companies to look beyond academic credentials and to instead hire people based on their skills.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

These are hot fields in a state with a growing tech sector that employs 12,140 people , but whose existing colleges and universities collectively produced only 103 computer science graduates with bachelor’s degrees or higher in 2017 — the last year for which the figures are available — including just 10 with master’s degrees.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Constitution, and quizzes to teach civics. Murdock says in the 2017 legislative session he will push to tighten the language of the waivers law to give the State Board of Education less influence in its implementation. Gant, like her younger colleague, works around the clock, learning her subject matter and thinking of how to teach it.

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MAY 22, 2017

According to a new report by Civic Enterprises and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, during the 2014-15 school year, the difference between the graduation rates of black and white students in the state was one of the smallest in the country.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Related: Making America whole again via civics education. Según datos de la oficina del secretario de la ciudad de Takoma, el promedio aproximado de la participación de los jóvenes de 16 y 17 años en las elecciones locales entre 2013 y 2017 fue del 42 por ciento, en comparación con el 20 por ciento del promedio de participación en general.

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APRIL 18, 2016

President Obama’s 2017 budget cites the benefits of integration and proposes a $120 million initiative that would provide competitive grants to school districts that are “exploring ways to foster socioeconomic diversity.”. You can usually trace it back to strong civic leadership,” McGraw said.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Credit: Chelsey Dyer US activists linking hands with Colombian activists to cross a bridge along the San Juan River in 2017 Kathleen also comments on the role of those in the United States who can “act to change the situation.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Until 2017, New Orleans high schools had no internal options to help students who fell so far behind a conventional diploma seemed impossible. “My In 2016 schools earned the 25-point incentive for a total of only 41 students citywide; the 2017 total was worse, a mere 17 students. My grades were perfect. But I was a chatterbox.”.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 23, 2024

The APSA-PSA International Partnerships Award, jointly supported by the Political Studies Association of the UK and APSA , honors political scientists engaged in collaborative and productive cross-national partnerships that make a significant contribution to the discipline in the areas of teaching, research, or civic engagement.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

A grassroots coalition of business and civic leaders came together with a resolve to fix these problems by alternately helping and compelling educators to greatly improve their results. “We didn’t look at azo until business and industry started saying, ‘This isn’t working for us.’ ”. Mobile did more than just bemoan its grim statistics.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

I had worked long enough in the practice of law, in government, in the business world, and in civic development to know that real change happens when people see new opportunities to shake up the status quo. Copyright (c) 2017 by Gloria Cordes Larson. Still, I was not part of the education establishment. All rights reserved.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

He had stellar grades in high school and is civic- minded, taking after his mother, who works as a community organizer in Thibodaux. If accepted, he planned to live at home with his mother and younger brother to save money and walk or, if he was lucky, get a ride to school. He was exactly the kind of student Nicholls hoped to attract.

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APRIL 18, 2017

The 2016 election and the tumultuous start to Donald Trump’s presidency, which hits the 100-day mark next week, have presented civics teachers in red, blue and purple states alike with a double-edged sword. For project-based civic learning, there’s the web-based “Civic Action Project” (CAP) created by the Constitutional Rights Foundation.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I learned about this revolutionary classroom practice in Alexis Wiggins’ 2017 book, “The Best Class You Never Taught.” My students developed a real respect for civic discourse and the skills for entering into it. The idea is simple.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Indeed, a recent study in the 2017 Mississippi Economic Review found that districts with the worst teacher shortages have a weak local property tax base, a high percentage of black students and are disproportionately located in the Delta. In 2017, more than $20 million was allotted for pay raises to these schools.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. This is her third year in the profession.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Civic project’ or ‘land grab’? A lawsuit briefly halted the Bollinger plan because judges agreed it was not a “civic project.” million since 2017 on firms that lobby city and state officials. “They have a very powerful board, they talk to the mayor,” she said. “I If you look at the budget deficits, they’re massive.”

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

It also gives students – in our case predominantly Black, Latino and Asian – a better understanding of the importance of civic engagement for addressing social and racial inequities, especially relevant during these times of political polarization and protest.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Next come outdoor adventures, entrepreneurship, civics and wellness, along with some art-focused badges. Even so, Girl Scouts of America remained 71 percent white as of 2017 , counting both adult volunteers and girls.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

It was founded as a contract school (similar to a charter) with Chicago Public Schools, by civic-minded tech leaders appalled that their booming industry was struggling to find enough new talent despite being surrounded by neighborhoods where, quite often, roughly 50 percent of the young adults were unemployed.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2016

Accepted to Cornell, Medina, whose friends call him Eddy, didn’t apply for any private scholarships like those provided by Rotary Clubs and other civic groups and businesses. Eduardo Medina, who was temporarily kicked out by Cornell because of financial problems.

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Political Science Now

JUNE 5, 2024

We must protect and expand American democracy in the face of authoritarian threats, and global backsliding, and promoting civic engagement is one way I work towards achieving this goal. Similarly, I believe that we must ensure that all institutions (not just educational) are diverse, equitable, and inclusive of all peoples.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2017

They’ve endured a number of Republican-led efforts to reduce arts funding since the 1990s, and in keeping with this tradition, President Trump’s budget blueprint, released in March 2017, proposes significant cuts to virtually every agency except Defense, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

DETROIT — Taking a trip down memory lane from the sidewalk in front of Western International High School, former civics teacher Keith Johnson shared the school’s ghost story, a tall tale about a child who died in a 1935 fire there. billion — three times the amount leaders are hoping to pull from federal Covid relief money.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In fact, the town library and school are linked by more than geography, since the school district’s two libraries became part of the Port Orford library system in 2017. Much like how town librarians stepped in to save the school libraries in 2017, they also provided crucial space, books, Wi-Fi, and activities to students during the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2018

The 2017-18 fiscal budget is 1.31 At an event at the Brookings Institution after the riots in Baltimore in 2015, Derek Douglas, vice president for civic engagement at the University of Chicago and former member of the White House Domestic Policy Council, discussed how planning can go awry. “If She’s right. billion dollars.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2017

And when economic justifications for schooling trump civic goals of creating and sustaining public life, we pay the high price of forsaking the public benefits of public education. As Justice John Paul Stevens warned in his 2002 dissent against the use of vouchers, their use “weaken[s] the foundation of our democracy.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2019

Julie Wollman, president of Widener University, who launched the Common Ground Initiative there in fall 2017 to lead regular conversations on campus for students and faculty, thinks people simply “want to find a better way.” WeListen , a club started by University of Michigan students in 2017, is aggressively balanced.

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