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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

Eligible applicants can include educational institutions, cultural organizations, historical societies or museums, community or civic groups, libraries, and literacy organizations. Today, NCHEs work focuses on three areas: professional learning, community building, and advocacy.

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Forget civics class: Students want to make a difference in real life

The Hechinger Report

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Related: Making America whole again via civics education.

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OPINION: Educators must be on the frontline of social activism

The Hechinger Report

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. This is dire.

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School Districts Are Being Held For Ransom Over Data. Are Solutions On The Way?

ED Surge

Just last week, the director of the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, Jen Easterly, listed K-12 as one of three “ target rich, resource poor ” priority sectors for the agency, which is tasked with toughening the country’s cybersecurity infrastructure. But it’s something that lawmakers are only beginning to wake up to.

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Do Alternatives to Public School Have to Be Political?

ED Surge

But these days, about 5 to 6 percent of all K-12 students are homeschooled, which means that model has received very little attention compared to charter schools, considering that about 7 percent of students attend those, she adds. McCoy says he prizes them primarily for instilling moral and civic virtues in students.

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One state is poised to teach media literacy starting in kindergarten 

The Hechinger Report

The bill , which won bipartisan support from the state’s senate and assembly, would require the New Jersey Department of Education to develop learning standards across K-12 in media and information literacy. It’s about civic responsibility,” Polites said. “I Phil Murphy’s desk for a signature. .

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