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. To reach every student in the U.S.,

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

That’s because since 2010 the number of students enrolled in teacher prep programs at colleges has fallen by more than a third, from about 900,000 students in 2010-11 to only 600,000 in the 2018-19 academic year, according to the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. So how are teacher prep programs responding?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

But no matter how hard we try we can’t help but see the inequities, the injustice, the hypocrisy in our education system. We went from being heroes and essential workers during the spring of 2020 to being viewed as babysitters by politicians around the country. Right now the educators may be in one of the greatest exoduses in history.

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