2020 Civics History Education 
ED Surge
OCTOBER 11, 2023
Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. In 2020, California adopted a State Seal of Civic Engagement that high school students can earn upon graduation.
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
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. The Educating for American Democracy project offers no clear guidance on which path is the right one.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 25, 2021
Author Andrea Gabor called the violence a “Sputnik moment for teaching civics.”. As Americans survey the damage to our democracy, how much can we blame schools for the vast divide between how different groups understand our shared history? history and democracy depends on where you live, however. What you learn about U.S.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 28, 2021
As Chris Tims, a high school teacher in Waterloo, Iowa, sees it, history education is about teaching students to synthesize diverse perspectives on the nation’s complicated past. history and civics since at least Reconstruction, the turbulent period that followed the Civil War. This story also appeared in NBC News.
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