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. It was the United States’ only branch of government under the Articles of Confederation. The branch’s building is the literal cornerstone of our government. was built, the U.S.

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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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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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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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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

La Toma is an Afro-Colombian community that has long sat at the intersection of extractive industries—especially gold mining—and violence from right-wing paramilitaries, guerillas, and government forces. Many older activists today involved in US Latin America solidarity were trained in techniques and tactics during this movement.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

But they are often contentious, and the seven other Ivy League universities pay some property taxes on those buildings or voluntarily pay millions of dollars every year to their local governments and school districts. Civic project’ or ‘land grab’? which had property tax savings of $145 million this year.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 16, 2024

We need such discussion if, as Federalist 1 puts it, we want a government based on reflection and choice rather than accident and force.” Awarded the James Madison Foundation Fellowship in constitutional studies for North Dakota in 2021, he immediately enrolled in MAHG.

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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. Starting at 8 a.m.

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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

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

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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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Keene at MAHG 2021 Teaching American History has recently published World War I and the 1920s: Core Documents , a collection curated by Professor Jennifer D. 2022) and teaches courses on the World Wars and Modern America for the Master of Arts in American History and Government program at Ashland University.

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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. The exterior of East English Village Preparatory Academy in Detroit, pictured in June 2021.

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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. contracted COVID-19 between the start of the pandemic and early August 2021.). Precautions continue into fall 2021. Playing it safe”.

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NCHE

MAY 5, 2025

From 2021 to 2024, The Rural Experience in America: Community Civics Through Historical Inquiry engaged rural educators in a rich exploration of rural history, particularly the effects of agricultural transformation on children, families, and communities.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In 2021, Siembo, along with local anthropologist and co-author George Umoja and other like-minded Rusingans, started the Rusinga Island Prehistory Organization (RIPO). It was, as Siembo says, a dream that didnt come through. Siembo never imagined that one day he would make those dreams and opportunities more accessible to future generations.

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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

According to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) , social studies is the integrated study of social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence. At its core, social studies aims to equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to actively participate in civic affairs.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Raise the Vote Revamped (2019-2021) APSA’s 2019-2021 Raise the Vote Campaign from a fresh perspective, highlighting timeless resources in thematic collections. Engaging the 2024 US Election Webinar Series National campaigns and elections allow citizens to reflect and participate in their democracy.

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Students of History

JANUARY 6, 2022

The insurrection of January 6th, 2021 is something that will be taught in US History classrooms as long as American History is a part of high school. ” This must be discussed as part of your US History or American Government course.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As President-elect Donald Trump promises to withhold federal funding from schools that do not comply with executive orders restricting curriculum content, state and local officials must take steps to protect school governance decisions that reflect the will of the people in their communities. Do your homework.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

In 2021, she said she was “crying with confidence because I knew that that represented my passion.”. 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. And the goal can be simple: helping students feel confident in their knowledge of how government works and empowering them to be civically engaged. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Samantha Palu, a high school government teacher in South Dakota, came to school on Jan. 7, 2021, armed with a plan to talk to all of her classes about the attack on the U.S. government and African American history in Hamilton, Ohio. government and African American history in right-leaning Hamilton, Ohio.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

For instance, conservatives are eager to get the government involved in biological screenings to determine if kids have the “correct” genitalia for peeing in a particular bathroom or playing on a particular sports team. President-elect Trump’s education platform was made of much vaguer stuff — mostly culture war vibes.

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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.

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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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