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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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

Murray, Weber State University (Presenter) Allison Rank, SUNY, Oswego State Session Description: Democratic erosion in the United States—rendered vivid in the events of January 6, 2021—as well as the global decline of democratic regimes should push us to reflect on how we introduce politics to students.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2022

Many of the micro-credentials we launched in 2021 focus on topics such as learner variability, digital fluency, STEM, flexible mindsets, early literacy, and more. BB2C fosters student, business, and civic relationships to inspire career choice through experience, entrepreneurship, and education. Building Bridges to Careers (BB2C).

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Past Events include: Preparing Students for the 2024 Election: Civic and Campus Engagement Engaging the 2024 U.S. Her research agenda focuses on political science pedagogy, campus-based civic engagement, and pop culture & politics. Huerta is a co-author of the textbook Practicing Texas Politics.

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 3, 2023

Civics education in Texas has been turned into textbook study by a 2021 law that bans student interaction with elected officials. Apparently, the Republicans who control state government want to keep students in the dark about getting involved in civic action.

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ED Surge

APRIL 25, 2022

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen provided testimony to Congress in 2021, where she explained how the company has failed to stop the spread of misinformation, is aware that apps like Instagram cause harm to teenagers, and has algorithms that are constantly tweaked to deliver engaging but problematic content.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2022

In a July 2021 report , the two proposed blurring the last two years of high school with the first two years of college to modernize our secondary and post-secondary education and training systems and connect them “more tightly to the world of work and careers,” according to Vargas who, with Hartung, was among the report’s authors.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 17, 2024

With the 2024 election looming, and the memory of the January 6, 2021, capitol insurrection still fresh, many warn the situation could get worse. Urban Rural Action’s nonpartisan civic participation programs bring together people across lines of difference to prevent targeted violence. Beyond Kenosha, nearly half the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

During Hurricane Ida in the summer of 2021, floodwaters had poured into vents set inches above ground level. While 95 percent of 58,000 primary and secondary teachers in 2021 felt that teaching climate change is important, just 32 percent felt they can explain climate change in their local context.

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Civics U

JUNE 2, 2022

1) The majority of citizens do not regularly attend church services , and the percentage of Americans who belong to a church, synagogue, or mosque declined to below 50% in 2021, although the majority of Americans still “affiliate” with some kind of organized religion. (2) This is based on several factors. (1) 3) In March 2022 only 27% of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2021

These are facts I observed and wrote about in my book “Remembering Freedom Summer,” but in 2021 many states have outlawed teaching such facts in their public schools and in trainings for educational staff. For decades I have been sharing my experiences with educational institutions and civic organizations. The year is 1964.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

In Colorado, for instance, there were about 380 open positions for educators in rural schools at the start of the 2021-2022 school year; by the end of the year more than half remained open, according to statistics from the state’s education department. The small town of Campo, Colo., Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Here’s a look at some of the first education bills proposed during the start of this year’s legislative session: • SB 2021 , proposed by Republican Sen. Angela Burks Hill, allows certain individuals to receive an exemption from teacher certification qualifications, including those who enter classrooms through a nontraditional teaching route.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

AUGUST 11, 2024

So included here are some of my favorite lessons and activities for teaching the legislative branch in my high school Civics and Government class. One I use is the 2021 Music Modernization Act, which clarifies copyright in music streaming and falls under Congress’s expressed power to protect artists’ work. should be granted statehood.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

And in 2021 a bipartisan bill was introduced in Congress to require institutions to disclose whether or not they use scholarship displacement, though it stalled in the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. In Minnesota , lawmakers have passed a measure discouraging scholarship displacement.

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ACRE

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

School: * School District: * Subject & Grade Level * Ex: 9th grade Economics, 11th grade AP Civics and Econ Competition Category: * Which division will your students be participating in? 2023 2022 2021 Educator Name * First Name Last Name Email * (This will be our primary form of contact for event updates.)

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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. Up until 2022, when version 9.0 of the Australian Curriculum was released, climate change was mentioned explicitly only four times.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

But in May, sitting in the office of her school’s family support specialist, Joell Stubbe, Karolina talked excitedly about going to Buffalo State university, where she’s been accepted into the class of 2021. Karolina credits the turnaround to her relationship with Stubbe. She’s like my older sister,” Karolina said. “I

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

14, 2021 • Studies Weekly Sandra Bradshaw, a second-grade teacher in Texas, is in the education field because she wants to positively impact students’ lives. Bradshaw wishes more teachers would teach civics and history through Studies Weekly. Studies Weekly Spotlight: Texas Teacher Shares Passion for Nonfiction Jan.

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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2024

percent of the student population, were chronically absent in the 2021-22 school year. This may contribute to challenges related to civic participation and community development. The national average rate of chronic absenteeism in K-12 schools has significantly increased in recent years. According to data from the U.S.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

For example, in 2017 in Buenaventura, Colombia, activists and everyday residents held a three-week civic strike to call attention to and demand public investment in civilian lives. This protest, eventually somewhat successful, preceded even larger (and widely repressed) nationwide protests in 2021 against neoliberal austerity.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 23, 2024

The APSA-PSA International Partnerships Award, jointly supported by the Political Studies Association of the UK and APSA , honors political scientists engaged in collaborative and productive cross-national partnerships that make a significant contribution to the discipline in the areas of teaching, research, or civic engagement.

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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

MAY 3, 2023

Many educators probably weren’t surprised by today’s announcement of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test results for civics and history. In past years, the scores for civics have been flat, which is hardly encouraging. At the end of 2022, Congress grew the federal allocation for civic education from $7.75

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

His book, released in 2021, is currently the basis of a traveling exhibition. I've been a civic activist my entire life. The pillars of the Rosenwald Schools’ story — Southern, education, civic, progressive — these are the pillars of my life. These days, race and educational opportunity still seem troublingly linked.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Civic project’ or ‘land grab’? A lawsuit briefly halted the Bollinger plan because judges agreed it was not a “civic project.” During the 2021 mayoral campaign, candidates including Andrew Yang and Curtis Sliwa called for ending the property tax exemptions altogether. If you look at the budget deficits, they’re massive.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

I was the mother of a 4-year-old daughter, and I was consumed by worries about child care, the car note for my used Honda Civic and saving for my own apartment. Her book, “Pregnant Girl,” will be released May 2021. When I graduated with a bachelor’s degree from William & Mary in 2003, I desperately needed a job.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

A study published in the journal Nature in 2021 analyzed millions of social media posts by students before and after active-shooter drills and found that anxiety, stress and depression increased by 39 to 42 percent following the drills.

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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. Todd Brown, Florida middle school civics teacher who led a pilot virus simulation. We were really amazed by that.” It wouldn’t make sense to kind of force congregation in the middle of a pandemic.”

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Teaching American History

APRIL 16, 2024

Awarded the James Madison Foundation Fellowship in constitutional studies for North Dakota in 2021, he immediately enrolled in MAHG. People who are disgruntled with civic life see it as controlled by those they didn’t vote for and can’t trust, so they don’t engage in “the gritty but civil dialogue” self-government requires.

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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.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JANUARY 4, 2024

There’s no teaching civics and government without a lesson on how a bill becomes a law, but it’s one that’s often left to verbalizing the steps and displaying a flowchart. Below, I share my lesson sequence for teaching how Congress passes bills into law in my high school Civics and Government class.

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Civics U

MARCH 10, 2022

The total expenditures by the federal government for fiscal year 2021 were $6.82 And, of course, the cost for salaries and benefits does not include the costs of program equipment, materials and activities; and the cost of subsidies and such. President Joe Biden’s budget proposal for FY 2022 was $6.011 trillion.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

Below are some ideas from the events in 2021 ( June and August ), 2022 , and 2023. events in 2021 and 2022. Or march to a local civic building. For example, in 2021 the Foster Woods Folk School offered a virtual teach-in with a series of five- to seven-minute “illegal lessons” from or about a historical site or event near them.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

There’s also a broader arc at play in a state economy that’s forced people to shift from work in local sawmills to commuter jobs that get them home later and leave them reliant on others to keep civic life running — a common pattern in 21st-century America. It was a pivotal election — but people didn’t realize it then.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Nationwide, school and district spending on SEL grew roughly 45 percent between November 2019 and April 2021, according to a report by Tyton Partners, an education consulting and investment firm.

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