The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

Last fall, after the university’s admissions team worked to craft a more intentional recruiting plan, officials say they enrolled the most diverse freshman class in LSU’s nearly 160-year history. The number of black students in the freshman class jumped from 587 to 889 from 2017 to this fall, a 51 percent increase.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

My degree is in psychology but I’m teaching history! 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. She is 35, and this wasn’t exactly her plan. “My

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APRIL 18, 2016

Osborn, who graduated from Clinton in 2005 and returned five years ago to teach history at the high school, said the benefits of Clinton’s plan stuck out to him even as a kid. You can usually trace it back to strong civic leadership,” McGraw said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Business education, I thought, could lead the way out of this, if for no other reason than that at various points in history, business had shown itself to be responsive to a rapidly changing world. Copyright (c) 2017 by Gloria Cordes Larson. Related: Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment.

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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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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

There is a long history of US imperial politics in Latin America and the Caribbean. 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

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

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. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year.

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The Hechinger Report

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. The organization had an ignoble early history of supporting white supremacy, a history it shares with other youth groups. Nor has the Girl Scouts had significant success diversifying its membership.

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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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The Hechinger Report

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

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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