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

Political Science Now

Read her interview discussing her experience with civic education and civic engagement at the high school level here. At Poolesville High School, I am a part of the humanities magnet program where I am supported as I study my interests in political science, writing, editing, and history.

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Politics, Pressure and Poor Sources: History Teachers Have It Tough These Days

ED Surge

With a curriculum that includes slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, two world wars and the Civil Rights Movement, American history teachers are used to venturing into emotionally charged subjects. We have trained students to see these sites put out by the federal government as really reliable narrators to American history.

History 103