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. history, European history, human geography, AP government. I was a freshman in college in fall 2020. I'll be leaving in 2024.

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Civics U

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Immigration and immigration reform have been issues in past American history, and are still issues in American government and politics. WHAT MAKES A NATION A nation normally has these characteristics: a population; a government with sovereignty in relation to other nations and authorities; and a territory defined by land mass and boundaries.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

The interest of the country is awakened and … the government responds.” 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. As Moses maintained, “ These students bring the rest of the country with them.

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Political Science Now

JULY 28, 2024

How can political science educators scaffold productive civic dialogue on contentious political issues? Deardorff , University of Tennessee Chattanooga Meet the Panelists Tavishi Bhasin is a Professor in the School of Government and International Affairs at Kennesaw State University, a large public university in Atlanta GA.

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Civics U

JANUARY 27, 2022

Preface Part I briefly summarized democracy and capitalism, socialism, and communism as major and currently familiar forms of government and economy, and the predominant systems in the United States, Russia, and China respectively. The country has a wealth of oil and gas reserves, and the government has control over major economic activities.

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Geogramblings

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Following a strong collective youth voice at COP26 , climate and sustainability education have become more prominent on governments’ agendas. Soon after COP26, the Scottish Government announced plans to update and strengthen its Sustainability Action Plan , designed to implement its flagship Learning for Sustainability policy.

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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. He carried on this work while teaching government and an elective course in constitutional, civil and criminal law at Brecksville-Broadview High School.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Categories Corporate Educator Spotlight English Language Arts Lesson Plans Press Professional Development Science Social Studies Studies Weekly Online Summer School Teacher Tips Thinking on Education Tutorials Uncategorized Well-Being Recent Posts Possible Sentences Vocab Strategy February 26, 2024 Lesson 4: How Does Our Government Work?

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Jigsaw Strategy Oct. February 26, 2024 Lesson 5: Who Can Run For Office February 26, 2024 Lesson 6: How Do We Choose Leaders? Grades K-3) February 26, 2024 The post Jigsaw Strategy first appeared on Studies Weekly.

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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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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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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. At one point, Brown’s students playing government officials fed false information to the “media” to convince the “public” to quarantine. In late 2019, reality caught up with Operation Outbreak.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

AUGUST 24, 2023

First, you’re introducing them at the beginning of your Civics class before diving into the Constitution’s actual text. That’s why I wanted to share my l esson sequence for teaching the principles of the Constitution in my senior Civics class. The main principles of the US Constitution can be tricky to teach for a few reasons.

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Civics U

MARCH 10, 2022

It could be stimulating and helpful to examine such matters as energy, education, immigration, racism, voting security and access, abortion, government mandates, and more. But once elected they become the chief administrator over government operations. The total expenditures by the federal government for fiscal year 2021 were $6.82

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2022

Many are also involved in the Black Lives Matter-led racial justice movement prompted by the killing of George Floyd by police in 2020. They are coming of age at a time of deep and bitter ideological divides, their lives already shaped by pandemic isolation and confrontations over mask mandates.

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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. By early 2020, before the pandemic, enrollment was up for the first time in recent memory.

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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 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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Let's Cultivate Greatness

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Including the Electoral College in your civics and government class is essential. This seems degrade them even below the prophetical curse denounced by the good old patriarch… To conclude, I can think of but one source of right to government and that is THE PEOPLE. Want these activities and more to bring into your Civics class?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Youth even have ideas as to how they should be governed. In 2015, NYC Service , a city agency focused on increasing volunteerism and civic engagement, announced the goal of engaging 30,000 youth ages 14-21 on new youth leadership councils working in policy and practice or service by 2020.”

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 22, 2023

I served on the governing board of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) for seven years. Two subjects where I felt confident as a reviewer, in addition to reading, were history and civics. Two subjects where I felt confident as a reviewer, in addition to reading, were history and civics.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

March 14, 2020. A protester holds a sign during a protest over the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, Monday, June 1, 2020, in Louisville, Ky. After Breonna Taylor was fatally shot by police while asleep in her Louisville apartment on March 13 2020, Cox, the Washington D.C. Credit: AP Photo/Darron Cummings.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

secretaries of Education and funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is to “transform teaching of history and civics” in ways that (they hope) will diminish political polarization in this country. Indeed, the local Civic Learning Plans its supporters propose would just further fragment the history our students learn.

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Diane Ravitch

JULY 16, 2024

Garcia-Navarro said that Project 2025 was: A transition blueprint that outlines a plan to consolidate power in the executive branch, dismantle federal agencies and recruit and vet government employees to free the next Republican president from a system that Roberts views as stacked against conservative power.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

But rates of voting by young people have quietly been rising to unprecedented levels, despite their lifetimes of watching government gridlock and attempts in some states to make it harder for them to vote. More than half of Americans ages 18 to 24 turned out for the 2020 general election , according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

Author Andrea Gabor called the violence a “Sputnik moment for teaching civics.”. history and civics, and many leave school with big gaps in political knowledge. “Each person knocking down those doors once sat in a classroom,” wrote sixth grade teacher Christie Nold in a Tweet that prompted hundreds of responses.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

If our students only learn about this exceptionally strange system from their corporate-produced history and government textbooks, they will have no clue why this is how we choose our president. Related: Making America whole again via civics education. Constitution, so that our institutions seem outside of history and beyond politics.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

history and civics since at least Reconstruction, the turbulent period that followed the Civil War. Their “ Roadmap to Educating for American Democracy ,” which calls for a massive federal investment in history and civics, is an attempt to reach a consensus on the key questions teachers should tackle. Such disagreements are hardly new.

Social Studies 125

Social Studies Civics History American History 125

Diane Ravitch

AUGUST 25, 2024

Heather Cox Richardson describes the Democratic National Convention and Kamala Harris offering a vision of community, of neighbors helping neighbors, of government removing barriers to opportunity and lifting up those who need help. That system, begun in the 1980s, called for the government to allow unfettered markets to organize the economy.

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