Political Science Now

MAY 27, 2024

Logging in to Learn: The Effects of Online Civic Education Pedagogy on a Latinx and AAPI Civic Engagement Youth Conference By Matt Lamb , Texas Tech University Civic education is essential to the health of any democracy. When COVID-19 emerged in the spring of 2020, almost all civic education efforts went online.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

A 2019 report from the Stanford History Education Group found that high school students had “difficulty discerning fact from fiction online.”. It’s about civic responsibility,” Polites said. “I Media literacy is often defined as the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create and communicate information or media.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

A follow up report in 2019 found similarly dismal results. Information is clearly the basis for their civic agency and civic empowerment. If someone can misinform you, they can hijack the power of your civic voice.”. We were stunned,” he said of the overall results. Students have a right to it,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

An analysis of Twitter sentiment designed to uncover the state of public mental health tracked similar words and phrases, suggesting rates of anxiety, stress and depression this spring were significantly higher than at the same time in 2019. It seems easy to blame global events for these feelings.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 5, 2022

A number of states have mandated data privacy officers as a component of their larger student privacy legislation, or are considering doing so, says Cody Venzke, senior counsel for the Center for Democracy in Technology’s Equity in Civic Technology Project.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

Individuals with postsecondary degrees earn more, pay more taxes and are more likely than others to be employed, according to the College Board’s Education Pays 2019. Having a college degree is associated with reduced unemployment, a healthier lifestyle, lower health care costs and higher levels of civic engagement.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Past Events include: Preparing Students for the 2024 Election: Civic and Campus Engagement Engaging the 2024 U.S. Her research agenda focuses on political science pedagogy, campus-based civic engagement, and pop culture & politics. Dr. Athena M.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

I was the mother of a 4-year-old daughter, and I was consumed by worries about child care, the car note for my used Honda Civic and saving for my own apartment. Generation Hope scholar alumna Lakeya and her two sons celebrating her graduation from Towson University in May 2019. In addition, I had $30,000 in student debt.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

A former history teacher from Florida, Long left the classroom in 2019. Fierce Scrutiny This all adds to teacher stress and attrition, according to “Political Polarization and Its Repercussions for Public School Teachers, ” a report by the Constructive Dialogue Institute, a nonprofit devoted to encouraging civic dialogue.

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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. History class.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

So in the fall of 2019 and the winter of 2020, I worked with a talented team of videographers and producers to fan out to schools across the country—in Indiana, California, Florida and Massachusetts—to capture short documentary videos of classroom teachers. What a great writing prompt. What a terrific life skill to be sharing.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

He also taught civics at Democracy Prep Public Schools, a network of high-performing charter schools based in Harlem, New York. Pondiscio is the author of How The Other Half Learns: Equality, Excellence, and the Battle over School Choice (2019). Robert Pondiscio is senior fellow and vice president for external affairs at the Thomas B.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Do you think schools are still inflating test scores?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2020

District Court Judge Allison Burroughs rejected claims that Harvard discriminated against Asian American applicants in 2019, Students for Fair Admissions took the matter to the court of appeals. This has enriched the academic experience of all students. This is especially true of interpersonal experiences.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Next come outdoor adventures, entrepreneurship, civics and wellness, along with some art-focused badges. From 2019 to 2020, close to 90,000 girls earned the new Think Like a Programmer, Coding for Good and Cybersecurity badges, Striegel said. million girls in 2019 , according to annual reports. million in 2010 to 1.7

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Last month, Digital Promise and Remake Learning hosted the 2019 Education Innovation Clusters Convening ( #EdClusters19 ) in Pittsburgh, bringing together nearly 100 educators, entrepreneurs, funders, researchers, and community stakeholders from more than 20 cities and regions across the U.S. — Malliron (@Malachashi) September 24, 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2019

I landed two on-campus jobs — one as a mentor to new Fatherhood recruits, and one as a Civic Fellow working with the college’s government relations manager. Christian Ortiz graduated from LaGuardia Community College in 2019 with his associate degree in writing and literature. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A school bus makes its way on the flooded Hopper Road in 2019 in Houston. But members of Gen Z are also suffering from severe eco-anxiety, and they want to be armed with information that helps them cope and be part of the solution. Nearly 6,500 schools are at high risk of flooding, according to a Pew Charitable Trusts report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

According to a 2019 national survey , close to half of American Indian and Alaska Native students reported knowing “nothing” or only “a little” about their cultural heritage. Since its opening in 2006, the charter school has inspired the launch of similar schools in other tribal communities. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

La idea de reducir la edad para votar, surgió luego de las huelgas de maestros de Oakland en febrero de 2019, según Lukas Brekke-Miesner, director ejecutivo de Oakland Kids First , una de las organizaciones sin fines de lucro involucradas en la campaña. Related: Making America whole again via civics education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

Students not only build cities, they create governments, infusing civics into the curriculum, too. Gehry Nelson then became the founding director, in 2019, of the Designed-Based Learner at Center X at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, after Frank endowed a $2 million chair in her name.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2019

National service is no longer considered a civic responsibility by America’s upper class. On March 29, 2019, it was reported that Harvard admitted six veterans to its Class of 2023.). Stanford, Harvard and the majority of other top private schools lack on-campus ROTC programs.

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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2024

These data reveal a substantial increase from the pre-pandemic rate of 16 percent in 2019. This may contribute to challenges related to civic participation and community development. Early data from the 2022-23 school year indicates minor improvement, with 27.85 percent of the student population being chronically absent.

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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 February 2019. A growing number of businesses are listening. million — The number of job openings in the U.S.

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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). Bernard will discuss exhibitions and memorials about slavery, emancipation, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2019

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. I, Mr. Billups , would be entrusted with the task of teaching civics in a politically polarized atmosphere at a culturally and racially diverse school in Boston. immigration policy.

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Political Science Now

JUNE 5, 2024

When I attended the APSA annual conference in 2019, the “Applying for a Job at a Teaching-Oriented Institution” roundtable session was incredibly helpful in preparing me for the portion of the academic job market I wanted to pursue. How have APSA membership and services been valuable to you at different stages of your career?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2021

Overwhelmed student “doctors” in the December 2019 version of the Operation Outbreak simulation at the Sarasota Military Academy Prep enter symptoms as they try to keep up with the high demand of treating patients. In late 2019, reality caught up with Operation Outbreak. Credit: Becky Morris. We were really amazed by that.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science — go to college, compared with 55 percent in the rest of the district, according to state data from 2019. His group sent a letter to the district in 2019 alleging racial discrimination in exam school admissions. Credit: Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images.

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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. CROWN mentor Rodney Woods speaks to incoming freshman Eric Sims during the CROWN orientation at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, LA, on Friday, Aug. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

First, Sinovuyo described Launch’s distinct approach to life orientation (LO), a compulsory subject added to the national curriculum during the transition from apartheid that focuses on the study of self and society through lessons on personal and social development, civics and human rights, health, and career readiness.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 2, 2024

Why is it essential to teach democratic citizenship and civic engagement? She promotes informed and engaged citizenship as a TV host, civic leader, and organizer of local and statewide political debates. She is also the director of PVCC’s Quality Enhancement Plan, Civic Sense: engaging students in the civic life of their communities.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2021

For decades I have been sharing my experiences with educational institutions and civic organizations. Woodson Memorial Award in July 2019 for engaging students about the civil rights movement. The National Education Association presented me with the Carter G.

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2025

Kaylin Hernndez a former student of Young-Savers and a panelist at the SXSW EDU event in Texas argued that bringing students into the education decision-making process even lifts civic involvement. The Opposite of Boring Cervantes graduated in 2019. After classes, students were surveyed on what they wanted to see taught.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2018

Her strategic plan , released in 2013 and based on conversations with some 40 staff, parents, civic leaders and students, stated that the district would reduce its out-of-school suspensions to zero, “except when critical for student and staff safety.”. In September 2016, it renewed her contract until 2019.

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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.

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