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Teaching ‘action civics’ engages kids — and ignites controversy

The Hechinger Report

They point to dismal scores on national history and civics exams — less than 25 percent scored as proficient — as proof that schools need to spend more time teaching students core facts about our system of government, and warn that civics projects are displacing that instruction. “The

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Come for the computers, stay for the books

The Hechinger Report

based education advocacy group. “It Baltimore County Public Schools have a long history of strong school libraries, but five years ago, they redefined the role of their 175 “library media specialists” to include teaching students a variety of analog and digital research and production skills they can use in class.

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CogSciSci Conference, May 2024

Dr. Preece

Colleagues new to it might want to look back at this blog piece on how I teach using earth.nullschool , or this guide to the IPCC’s AR6 release that gives some further context. I’ve uploaded my slides here ( [link] ) with all of the links and references.

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

The Hechinger Report

Those connections start with one-on-one mentoring, in which teachers meet with students weekly to discuss short-term goals, such as completing a certain number of units in a history course, and long-term goals that stretch into college and career. The daily schedule for sixth graders at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts.

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

The Hechinger Report

a retired English teacher who blogs about education and is the Colorado coordinator of the Education Policy Fellowship Program. Eighty-four percent of students go on to attend the colleges from which they took their dual-enrollment classes, the CCRC study found.

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Activism in/as Scholarship

All Things Pedagogical

These remarks can be found on my blog. So this takes me to where my activism and advocacy started from and it is Ruskin, yes problematic fav Ruskin. As Alinsky (1971) notes in Rules for Radicals , “throughout history silences has been regarded as assent – in this case assent to the system” (x). Are they scholar-activists?

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Learn how Political Science Students are Improving Wikipedia

MPSA

They created the entry on Settler colonialism in Canada , describing the important history of the displacement and mistreatment of Canada’s indigenous populations by European settlers. in history and brings extensive experience in higher education and academia to Wiki Education. Helaine has a Ph.D.