TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

A 2018 national survey found that K-3 teachers spend an average of 89 minutes per day on ELA and 57 minutes on math, but only 18 minutes on science and 16 minutes on social studies. A more balanced instructional approach fosters critical thinking, problem-solving, and civic awareness, preparing students for academic success and beyond.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

If you look at data from the National Center for Education Statistics, you can see steady gains made between 2000 and 2018. In 2018, the median annual earnings of bachelor’s degree recipients with no advanced degree who were working full-time were $24,900 higher than those with only a high-school diploma. What needs to happen?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2018

This was the launch of my civics engagement. Related: Making America whole again via civics education. People around the country talk a lot about the importance of civics education, how youth are the future and how we can effect change to create a stable and improved country. About voting? Related: Go vote.

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

Engaging Citizenship introduces foundational concepts in political science through the lens of citizenship, democracy, and civic engagement, highlighting the relevance of the discipline to students’ lives and encouraging them to become engaged and empowered citizens. McHugh, Merrimack College (Discussant) Richard M.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

A 2018 meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of children ages 14 and younger demonstrated that math performance in children emerges from areas of the brain that are associated with number processing, such as the parietal and frontal areas.

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Cultures Civic Engagement Civics Pedagogy 135

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2019

The process, known as participatory budgeting, was meant to ignite student interest in democracy and civic engagement. Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled the proposal in his 2018 State of the City address, as part of a broader push for civics education. “We For weeks, the momentum favored the greenhouse project.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

A man watches an artificial intelligence (AI) news anchor from a state-controlled news broadcaster, on his computer in Beijing on November 9, 2018. The best civics lesson requires you to leave the classroom. Related: Youth will determine the outcome of the 2018 midterms. Related: Go vote.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Parents and students demonstrate against New York City mayor Bill DeBlasio’s plans to remove the SHSAT, a standardized test, requirement for admission to the city’s elite public high schools, on September 9, 2018, in New York City Credit: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2018

” Related: COLUMN: Marjory Stoneman Douglas students give legislators a civics lesson. That’s why I am joining other students in chorus of #neveragain and #MarchForOurLives at the Kentucky State House on March 20, 2018. Coral Springs, Fla. — Photo: © Mike Stocker/Sun-Sentinel via ZUMA Wire.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2016

In New Orleans, the upcoming board will oversee the unification process – the transfer of approximately 50 independent charter schools under the Recovery School District to the Orleans Parish School Board by 2018. Numerous empirical studies have concluded there is a positive correlation between civic and social engagement (CSE).

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Tamara Cupit, who teaches ninth grade civics in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, said that just as getting adults to follow mask-wearing protocols has been difficult for the state’s governor, John Bel Edwards, so too has it been a challenge when it comes to kids in her school. Over the same period in 2019, the figure was 114.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Civic engagement is at the foundation of the ExCITe Center’s work, and Kim is constantly brokering partnerships with individual schools, teachers, and community groups; the EdClusters work is a natural extension. — Digital Promise (@DigitalPromise) July 16, 2018. — Digital Directions (@EdWeekEdTech) July 17, 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

La hermana mayor de Mendoza, Gema Quetzal, sirvió en la Junta de Educación de California en 2018-19, donde disfrutó del mismo poder de voto que otros miembros. Related: Making America whole again via civics education. Ahora está en su segundo año en la Universidad de Stanford.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Department of Education in 2018 pushed for the expansion of high-quality charter schools meant to serve Native communities, among other groups it deemed educationally disadvantaged and underserved by the existing charter sector. As the state of education for these children continued to languish, the U.S.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

It’s a natural fit for a school community whose mission includes cultivating and cherishing “an environment that supports the academic, social-emotional, creative and civic learning” of all students. After studying the artwork of pop artist Andy Warhol, fifth and sixth grade students made artwork inspired by his creations.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

Karl Rove, left, answers questions from Ronald Crutcher, president of the University of Richmond, on March 22, 2018. Our mission, as academic institutions, is to stand up to this dangerous brand of civic chicanery. Photo courtesy of University of Richmond's Facebook page.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Consider former First Lady Michelle Obama’s courageous description in her 2018 book, “ Becoming ,” of how she unfairly benefited from such politics in her own education. Having a parent who excels at local public-school politics shouldn’t be a precondition for a child to get a good teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

In July 2018, the state hired a full-time employee to focus on teacher recruitment and retention. Adrienne Hudson, left, discusses education-related issues with Jo Blake, an instructor with Core Civic, during the RISE Teacher’s Night Out at the Crossroads Cultural Arts Center in Clarksdale, Mississippi last December.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Below, I share my lesson sequence for teaching the expressed powers of Congress in my high school Civics and Government class. Grab my Powers of Congress activity kit if you want a done-for-you lesson sequence to cover the basics of the Legislative Branch for your Civics or Government class in just a few class periods.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

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. In 2018, he entered a free nine-month program at a workforce organization called Just-A-Start, training for the biomedical industry.

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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. High school graduation rates in Mobile are way up, from 55 percent before 2011 to 86 percent in 2018. Related: Is California saving higher education?

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Political Science Now

APRIL 4, 2024

Wong is author of Immigrants, Evangelicals and Politics in an Era of Demographic Change (2018, Russell Sage Foundation Press), Democracy’s Promise: Immigrants and American Civic Institutions (2006, University of Michigan Press) and co-author of two books on Asian American politics.

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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. The average white ACT score in Louisiana in 2018 was 21.3; 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.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In comparison, young American voter registration is much lower and participation spiked in 2018 — when 28 percent voted , a record percentage — though it’s dipped since then. In recent years, a number of states have passed civics testing mandates to pressure students to become more civically active.

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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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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

She is author of Public Sculpture and the Civic Ideal in New York City, 1890-1930 (1989/1997), The Politics of Urban Beauty: New York and Its Art Commission (2006), and Sculpture in Gotham: Art and Urban Renewal in New York (2018). Bogart is professor emeritus of art history and visual culture at Stony Brook University. Motley, Jr.,

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

It suffocates the civic impulse. Though state lawmakers this year passed a measure to return RSD schools to local boards by July 2018, critics say it won’t make any difference because the law still maintains charter schools’ operational autonomy. “If Matthew Baptist Church in Highland Park. “It The school board has no power.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2023

Many educators probably weren’t surprised by today’s announcement of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test results for civics and history. In past years, the scores for civics have been flat, which is hardly encouraging. At the end of 2022, Congress grew the federal allocation for civic education from $7.75

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Civics Primary Sources Civic Engagement K-12 126

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2019

As I look back on my preparation for my first year as a teacher, in 2018, my fears, ideas and overthinking now seem whimsical at best. When it was confirmed that I would be developing and piloting our school’s first civics course, I began to think about my eighth-graders more intently. immigration policy.

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MPSA

MARCH 30, 2022

Smith, Professor of Political Science, Emporia State University Between 10 and 15 years ago, Political Science experienced a renewed interest in civic education. Graham and I collaborated, and I reached out to local high school civics teachers in Kansas and western Missouri in hopes of meeting with them and sharing our ideas.

Civics 52

Civics Civic Engagement Teaching Political Science 52

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

NEW YORK — When planning an election-year trip to the Southwest border for our undergraduate political reporting class last spring, we imagined reprising an award-winning reporting journey we took to a rural swing district in Maine during the 2018 midterms.

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Civic Engagement Social Justice Economics Civics 145

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. History class.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 27, 2024

Walz, who served several terms in Congress before becoming the governor of Minnesota in 2018, is a former high school social studies teacher and football coach who, to this day, holds those identities close. Come January 2025, depending on the outcome of the election, he could be moving to Washington, D.C.,

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Education Civics Government Political Science 114

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Next come outdoor adventures, entrepreneurship, civics and wellness, along with some art-focused badges. On National Girl Scout Day in 2018, Sen. The Boy Scouts made its core programs coed in 2018. A lot of women politicians are former Girl Scouts, and “they alwayswant to talk about their Girl Scout service,” she said.

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Leadership Civics History High School 129

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

In the Desoto County School District, for example, first-year teachers with a bachelor’s degree received a local supplement of $4,204 for the 2018 year, compared to just $825.65 During the 2018 legislative session, lawmakers presented two bills, House Bill 699 and House Bill 993 , aimed at giving educators a financial boost.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2021

Brown crafted civics lessons about outbreak response for his eighth graders at Sarasota Military Academy Prep, a charter middle school. Sabeti’s team returned to the Florida middle school in 2018 to help pilot the app. Todd Brown, Florida middle school civics teacher who led a pilot virus simulation. Starting at 8 a.m.

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Civics K-12 Middle School Lesson Plan 117

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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