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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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 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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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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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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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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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

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

MARCH 17, 2021

Protesters calling for Boston schools to keep the admission exam for the city’s elite exam schools rally outside of Boston Latin School in Boston on October 18, 2020. Credit: Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images. Credit: Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images.

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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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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.” April 2020. Summer Project workers lived and worked in rented or donated spaces that became known as “ Freedom Houses. Scene On Radio. Season 4, Episode 7. Dittmer, John.

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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

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 28, 2020

This year is anything but usual, of course, and the pandemic’s ramifications for in-person civic engagement could make voting harder for young people than it already was. Aiyana Edwards, student and voter-drive organizer, Spelman College.

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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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Civics U

JANUARY 27, 2022

The United States Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor 2020 report on Russia’s human rights practices identifies a number of “significant human rights issues”. The next article will reflect on these and further questions about the nature of government and governments.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2019

What didn’t come up at “ Public Education Forum 2020: Equity and Opportunity for All ” is that a part of any educational equity platform should be eliminating the politics that give K-12 public-school parents who know how to work the system preferred access to good teachers.

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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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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In recent years, a number of states have passed civics testing mandates to pressure students to become more civically active. And how useful is civic education for those who chose to get involved? One idea that’s taken root is forcing students to take a civics test as a requirement for high school graduation.

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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

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The United States spends $54 per student on those subjects, but only 5 cents per student on civics education. The result is an education system that has neglected preparation for engaged citizenship, and a divisive, dysfunctional political environment that is coming into sharper focus in the aftermath of the 2020 election.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

“News literacy is fundamental to preparing students to become active, critically thinking members of our civic life — which should be one of the primary goals of a public education,” Kim Bowman, News Literacy Project senior research manager and author of the report, said in an email interview. “If

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

By August 2020, Hitz christened the effort the Catherine Project, named for Catherine of Alexandria, patron saint of philosophers, and Catherine Doherty, a social worker who founded a Catholic community where Hitz lived for a few years. “No credits, no degrees—come and study fundamental questions, reading classic books.”

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