The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

A September 2020 study from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Calling for more civics and history instruction is nothing new. Credit: Jason Bachman/Flickr.

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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

MAY 3, 2020

This is why, now more than ever, it is so important that everyone complete the 2020 Census. High school students like me might not be interested in the 2020 Census. The best civics lesson requires you to leave the classroom. A key step to help solve this issue, and many others, is to participate in the 2020 Census.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Originally designed as an academic conference to share research, the event brought together Florida K-12 and college teachers and students, national journalists and professionals from libraries and museums whose work focuses on history and civics. Robinson noted that these events took place even before Florida’s recent laws went into effect.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Polites, who testified before the legislature on the need for media literacy, said the subject goes “hand-in-hand” with a recently passed state civics-education law , that will help students to become well-informed voting citizens, regardless of political party. It’s about civic responsibility,” Polites said. “I

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The bad news is that most colleges and universities aren’t actively approaching their teaching this way in 2020. ThirdSpace@ was designed to meet this need, giving students the tools and guidance to effectively contribute to existing civic structures built around the biggest challenges we face today.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The district built up community trust and used a cautious, step-by-step reopening strategy to make it through the 2020-2021 school year with zero cases identified in school buildings. Starting in fall 2020, the library hosted IT specialists and teachers from the school in one of the library’s conference rooms. Playing it safe”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

A May 2020 report by the Southern Regional Education Board promotes three key solutions. Jim Ryan is executive director of OpenSciEd , an initiative of the National Center for Civic Innovation that partners with states and education leaders to build freely available high-quality middle-grades science curricula.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Despite its efforts, the district suffered a big ransomware attack in 2020. 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

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. Diane Bennett and her son sit in front Moffat House at Misericordia University in Dallas, PA on September 27, 2020.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In 2020, Kenosha became a hotspot for civil unrest when a white police officer shot and paralyzed Jacob Blake , a Black man. Demonstrators held a banner for Jacob Blake, who was paralyzed after being shot by a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 2020. election in November. Bubman is the founder and executive director of UR Action.

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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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Civics U

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The following figures show the top 10 countries of origin for immigrants in 2020: 1. million as of mid-2020 - approximately 15.3% Mexico — 100,325 2. India — 46,363 3. China — 41,483 4. Dominican Republic — 30,005 5. Vietnam — 29,995 6. Philippines — 25,491 7. El Salvador — 17,907 8. Brazil — 16,746 9. Cuba — 16,367 10.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2021

This results in healthy children meeting developmental milestones, healthy parents with family-supporting jobs and vibrant and civically engaged families and communities. A consulting firm that helps organizations design and implement transformative projects, ICF, conducted the “Friends of the Children 2020 Caregiver Survey.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2020

The Class of 2020 is graduating from a distance. This means that students living in online “education deserts,” who already face significant barriers to success, are being locked out of the postsecondary education that is so important to so many individuals’ prospects for future prosperity and civic engagement.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2022

BB2C fosters student, business, and civic relationships to inspire career choice through experience, entrepreneurship, and education. The Delaware Department of Education has added to their 17 early literacy micro-credentials that were launched in 2020 with 12 new micro-credentials to support early literacy throughout the state.*.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

And — since the 2020 national reckonings about racial injustice, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and ongoing debates about critical race theory — how can we reimagine the U.S. history and civics curriculum to be more inclusive and equitable?

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. I was a freshman in college in fall 2020. It's a dynamic, constantly changing field. I'll be leaving in 2024.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Even though this crucial completion figure hit 84 percent in 2016, up from 71 percent in 2001, the nation is off pace when it comes to reaching a graduation rate of 90 percent by 2020. Young people represent untapped potential in a nation that needs their talents — socially, economically and civically. Sign up for our newsletter.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Many cultural centers curate history, geography, and civic exhibits that connect the past with the present. I was first introduced to UGRR at the SUNY Buffalo State College Civic Summit when their educational specialists presented “Lessons from the Field: The Legal Geography of Slavery.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

That school opened in fall 2020, at the height of the pandemic, and suffered from low enrollment and poor finances, according to the charter’s board of directors. Ultimately, the network wants to avoid being forced to close another of its member schools, as happened last year when Denver Public Schools shuttered the American Indian Academy.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

has a population of just 103 people, but civic engagement is high, including intense public support for its tiny school district. Unlike some other states, Colorado has many small rural districts (111 had fewer than 1,000 students in fall 2020) because state lawmakers haven’t forced consolidations that could save money.

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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.

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Teaching American History

JULY 9, 2024

Sean Brennan Brennan, a frequent participant in Teaching American History seminars , has long promoted civic education and civil cooperation at the local and state level. In 2020, Brennan began bringing local naturalization ceremonies into the high school. Being on the Council furnished endless lessons for my classes,” he said.

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Geogramblings

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Now there are (according to one count) 32 references to climate change across a range of subject areas: civics and citizenship, geography, history, science, mathematics, technologies, and the arts.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Related: Making America whole again via civics education. “Como miembro con derecho a voto, sentí que podía responsabilizar a los adultos por las decisiones que toma sobre la educación de mis compañeros en todo el estado” dice Gema. También podía dar la perspectiva de lo que los estudiantes ven en sus escuelas todos los días”, agrega.

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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

APRIL 22, 2021

My former high school students in rural Arkansas now teach at the schools they attended during their childhoods, in the same political conditions of Blackness in which I taught them in my civics class in 2014, as they tried to process the Ferguson, Missouri, police killing of Mike Brown , a man they had never met but who looked like them.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

All across the nation, students with senior years truncated by the pandemic are feeling a sense of loss as they try to understand what exactly it means to be part of the Class of 2020. Jarrin Rainey, 20, a 2020 graduate of Frederick A. Douglass High School , remembers his uncles pushing the family to safety in a boat.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

They fanned out across historically undercounted communities like Harlem and reported on the 2020 census. Census, we had taught them how to plumb demographic data and to understand why the census was key to both political apportionment and allocating federal funds for institutions like public schools. Still, we were taking a risk.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Should discussions of the Civil Rights bills of 1964 and 1965, George Wallace and current debates about voter suppression be banished from political science and civics classes? This principle applies without regard to the political basis for censorship.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

The new meta-analysis reviewed a fresher batch of 424 studies conducted between 2008 and 2020 across more than 50 countries and involving more than 500,000 students in kindergarten through grade 12. Also included were programs that addressed ethical and civic values.

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Civics U

MARCH 10, 2022

In 2020 the federal government employed close to three million employees in 15 departments and over 700 agencies. The IRS had over 75,000 employees and a budget of over $12 billion in 2020.) A Closer Look: IRS making progress on key areas slowed by the pandemic, but more work remains It cannot begin to answer so many.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 2, 2024

The Ford Foundation went on to fund her subsequent Mobilization, Change and Political and Civic Engagement Project. Cohen is the recipient of numerous awards, including being elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, being named a 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, receiving the 2021 Hanes Walton, Jr.

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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. As the real virus became a global pandemic in early 2020, the parallels were unmistakable. Todd Brown, Florida middle school civics teacher who led a pilot virus simulation. Starting at 8 a.m.

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