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Why Government Teacher Amy Messick Ran For School Board

Teaching American History

MARCH 11, 2025

Teaching government at Hilliard Darby High School in Ohio (a suburb of Columbus), Amy Messick helps students understand how our constitutional system works. She also encourages them to figure out their own political views and to actively engage in civic life. In 2023, he returned the encouragement Messick had given him.

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Theme Panel: Civic Learning on Campus: Bringing Political Science In Mini-Conference I, II and III

Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

Engaging Citizenship introduces foundational concepts in political science through the lens of citizenship, democracy, and civic engagement, highlighting the relevance of the discipline to students’ lives and encouraging them to become engaged and empowered citizens. McHugh, Merrimack College (Discussant) Richard M.

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Defend the Freedom to Learn in Georgia: Back-to-School Read-Aloud

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

February 2024 Update: The school district’s firing of Katie Rinderle was just upheld by the state board. Fifth grade Georgia teacher, Katie Rinderle, has been terminated for reading My Shadow Is Purple to her students , a book she purchased at her school’s Scholastic book fair.

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Katherine Thrailkill’s Mentor Led Her to MAHG

Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Katherine Thrailkill at Summer 2024 MAHG. Thrailkill was a third-year teacher happily settled at Skyline High School in Mesa, AZ, when Lindblom phoned to ask her to apply for an opening at nearby Mountain View High. Then she was offered the position of social studies curriculum advisor for the large Mesa Public School district.

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His Teachers Showed Him Why History Matters. Now He Wants to Pay That Forward.

ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Was your own experience in school largely positive or largely negative? I've always been in public schools, and I’ve had ups and downs.

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APSA’s Summer Rise High School Intern Program: Meet the Cohort

Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This summer, the American Political Science Association partnered with Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) District’s Summer Rise Program to offer three high school students the opportunity to gain experience in political science knowledge production and higher education non-profits.

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Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

Now my students know that if I am wearing my BLM shirt or Black History Matters shirt at school it is not a performative act — it means that they can hold me accountable to what I have done in and out of class to show that I am living up to that belief. Applications for 2024–2025 study groups are open. Check out their overview.

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PROOF POINTS: Stanford’s Jo Boaler talks about her new book ‘MATH-ish’ and takes on her critics

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

The battle became personal, with some criticizing her $5,000-an-hour consulting and speaking fees at public schools while sending her own children to private school. At least one, the Valhalla Foundation, the family foundation of billionaire Scott Cook (co-founder of the software giant Intuit), stopped funding youcubed in 2024.

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The (mostly) Republican Idaho moms fighting to reclaim their school district from hard-right conservatives

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

It’s about the viability of public education in their community. The national infection facing public schooling—the tug-of-war between education professionals and extremist culture warriors—has brought chaos and damage to West Bonner County. This is not hyperbole. But residents suddenly sorted into “for” and “against” factions.

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C. J. Prentiss ¡Presente!: A Path Maker for Justice

Zinn Education Project

APRIL 2, 2024

Prentiss died on April 2, 2024. Most notably, Prentiss was a key player in the civil rights struggle for school desegregation in Cleveland during the late 1970s. In 1978, a court ordered the desegregation of Cleveland public schools. We are saddened by the news that the powerful Ohio organizer and political leader C.

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What young Democrats have to say about higher education

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2024

If you’re trying to diversify the elite and trying to make the leading spaces of America look like America, you can’t go to the same 20 schools.” — Sandra Ukah, a sophomore at the University of Florida in Gainesville “College is so important to learn how to be civically engaged, and I think a lot of colleges need to have a greater focus on this.

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OPINION: As book bans reach historic levels, more educators should get involved in school governance

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The 2024 election results do not erase constitutional protections of free speech and democratic principles of civic discourse in our nations public schools.

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OPINION: Trump is back. We’re still waiting on his plan for schools

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

School voucher programs may give anxious parents public money to pay for private education, but there’s not much evidence that they help students or the public schools they’re leaving behind. So they’re promising not to nationalize how schools teach history, except when they don’t like how certain schools teach history.

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Joyce Vance: Bring Back Civics Education!

Diane Ravitch

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Voters who lack the backbone of a solid education in civics can be manipulated. Remember when Trump told an evangelical group during the campaign that if they voted in 2024 it would be the last time they had to vote? For one thing, if its right for you, even if its a stretch, consider running or seeking appointment to a school board.

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Why Government Teacher Amy Messick Ran For School Board

Theme Panel: Civic Learning on Campus: Bringing Political Science In Mini-Conference I, II and III

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Defend the Freedom to Learn in Georgia: Back-to-School Read-Aloud

Katherine Thrailkill’s Mentor Led Her to MAHG

His Teachers Showed Him Why History Matters. Now He Wants to Pay That Forward.

APSA’s Summer Rise High School Intern Program: Meet the Cohort

Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups

PROOF POINTS: Stanford’s Jo Boaler talks about her new book ‘MATH-ish’ and takes on her critics

The (mostly) Republican Idaho moms fighting to reclaim their school district from hard-right conservatives

C. J. Prentiss ¡Presente!: A Path Maker for Justice

What young Democrats have to say about higher education

OPINION: As book bans reach historic levels, more educators should get involved in school governance

OPINION: Trump is back. We’re still waiting on his plan for schools

Joyce Vance: Bring Back Civics Education!

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