2020 Civics Social Justice 
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. Presidents and chancellors are instead singularly focused on the unknowns surrounding this year: Will it be safe to open campus, can we keep campus open, how do we stop students from socializing?
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
A year ago, a Pennsylvania school board voted to ban a long list of books and other materials relating to race and social justice. How can English teachers discuss Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man,” Philip Roth’s “The Human Stain” or Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” without considering race and social justice?
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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.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 14, 2023
Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report Social-emotional learning – aimed at fostering a wide assortment of soft skills from empathy and listening to anger management and goal-setting – has been one of the hottest trends in education over the past decade, and more recently, a new flashpoint in the culture wars.
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.
C3 Teachers
MAY 23, 2022
Most importantly, I want the course content to be relevant to their lives as future teachers, and I want them to see themselves as civic and political actors. 6; Love, 2019). From this perspective, the focus on skills, such as describing how the text conveys meaning, supports analysis over simply stating opinions.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
More than half of Americans ages 18 to 24 turned out for the 2020 general election , according to the U.S. Tisch College of Civic Life. “It Of the more than 1 million new voters it signed up in all, Vote.org says 34 percent were 18, compared to 8 percent during its 2020 voter registration drive. Census Bureau.
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