Advocacy Civic Engagement K-12 
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
I taught my students to respect the power of civic engagement and social activism. We must do this through teaching, learning and advocacy — as well as social activism and civic engagement. Recent politics has made it hard to extend that work. I have trained in, taught and led educator preparation programs.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 29, 2020
In recent years, the group’s advocacy has led to changes in the district’s graduation requirements, to align them with admissions requirements for California’s university systems, and an expansion of funding for an after-school meal program that had been cut by the school board. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.
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Political Science Now
JULY 16, 2024
This roundtable will focus on Balasco, Forestal, and Abernathy’s Engaging Citizenship, a forthcoming introduction to politics textbook (Oxford University Press 2025). political system within a global context, and 3) to engage with the political process as educated and empowered citizens.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 5, 2017
A serious social justice funder devotes at least 25 percent of its annual giving for advocacy, community organizing, civic engagement and other systems-change strategies,” the framework says. “We One of the planks of NCPR’s framework is to increase the number of serious social justice funders. “A
ED Surge
MAY 7, 2025
Though AHA researchers stress they found no indoctrination, politicization or deliberate classroom malpractice, the heavy-handed political rhetoric from the White House harms teachers, says Emma Humphries, a former history teacher and now chief education officer at the civics advocacy group iCivics.
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