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OPINION: During civic learning week, let’s push for national progress toward a more perfect union

The Hechinger Report

National pride in America is at a record low, coinciding with desperately low scores on the nations civics report card from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). This week is National Civic Learning Week , when thousands of Americans will demonstrate just how we can do this. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

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NCHE Partners with the Library of Congress

NCHE

As of February 2025, NCHE serves as the director of one of the Librarys newest regional granting entities, the Great Plains Region. Eligible applicants can include educational institutions, cultural organizations, historical societies or museums, community or civic groups, libraries, and literacy organizations.

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Apply Now for 2025 APSA Dissertation Workshops | Deadline: April 27, 2025

Political Science Now

All applications must be submitted by Sunday, April 27, 2025. punctuated equilibrium, policy diffusion, advocacy theory, multiple streams theory), and policy areas such as but not limited to education, higher education, housing, immigration, and environmental/energy policy. Our virtual workshops are held over the summer or fall.

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Beyond the Classroom: Building Faculty Capacity for Success: Virtual Workshop

Political Science Now

Beyond the Classroom: Building Faculty Capacity for Success Friday, May 2, 2025 | 1:30 PM Eastern | Register Here This joint American Political Science Association and Western Political Science Association virtual workshop expands on the 2025 WPSA Community College Mini-Conference roundtable, Beyond the Classroom: Collaborating for Success.

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

Political Science Now

This roundtable will focus on Balasco, Forestal, and Abernathy’s Engaging Citizenship, a forthcoming introduction to politics textbook (Oxford University Press 2025). What experiential learning and civic engagement activities promote critical thinking about what it means to live under a democracy?

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Critics warn that well-meaning reforms may be lowering the quality of college

The Hechinger Report

Students work on an assignment in a high school civics class. At the California State University System, that’s part of a plan to more than double the proportion of freshmen who finish in four years from the current 19 percent to 40 percent by 2025. Related: Transfer students start getting more of the credits they’ve already earned.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2025

Zinn Education Project

Or march to a local civic building. Workshops and More Events Check out workshops by More Social Justice Education Events The post Teach Truth Day of Action 2025 appeared first on Zinn Education Project. See photos and stories about the D.C. events in 2021 , 2022 , and 2023. Music and chants are a plus. Photo by Dean Hesse, 2022.