Political Science Now

MAY 27, 2024

Logging in to Learn: The Effects of Online Civic Education Pedagogy on a Latinx and AAPI Civic Engagement Youth Conference By Matt Lamb , Texas Tech University Civic education is essential to the health of any democracy. When COVID-19 emerged in the spring of 2020, almost all civic education efforts went online.

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Institute for Citizens & Scholars

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

A Chronicle of Higher Education article highlights College Presidents for Civic Preparedness and the focus on free expression and civil discourse on campuses.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 1, 2019

Our students are inundated with media, but how many of them are able to differentiate between a news article and an opinion piece or recognize bias in the media? NewseumED , a free online resource, is committed to cultivating the First Amendment and media literacy skills they believe are critical to participating in civic life.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Zeemering , University of Georgia Service-learning courses help students to identify career opportunities and foster civic engagement, but links to projects with local governments may be difficult to forge. Read the full article. State Municipal Associations as Intermediaries in Service Learning By Eric S.

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Civics U

JUNE 16, 2022

A prefatory note: The ideas in this article are not new or original. Civic education commonly teaches and equips people for engagement in governmental and political processes at national, state, and local levels.

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Teaching Civics

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Update: In 2023, the Minnesota Legislature repealed the civics test requirement. Beginning in the 2023-24 school year, districts will no longer need to administer the civics test ( Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 120B.02, 02, subdivision 3 has been repealed by Chapter 55, Article 2, Section 66 ).

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

AUGUST 24, 2023

During the 2010s, one specific group, the Civics Education Initiative, made it their goal to have all 50 states make passing some form of the US Naturalization Test (the official name of the test) a high school graduation requirement. The Citizenship Test is the axis my Civics class rotates around. Now over a dozen do.

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4QM Teaching

MAY 23, 2023

Is the Four Question Method applicable to civics education? As history / social studies people we’re often in contact with civic education advocates and organizations, and as a small organization interested in growing we’re sometimes advised to make a pitch for ourselves as civics educators. Gary and I get this question a lot.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2022

A viral article posted by an anonymous mother in The Washingtonian chronicled how her child became a part of an alt-right community in a Reddit subgroup after experiencing a loss of friends at school and was then invited to moderate a Reddit page. Some children then enter a “ pipeline ” of online extremism and are pushed further right.

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Civics U

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This article will not enter that debate, but will review key elements in immigration history and law. HISTORY OF IMMIGRATION A full description of this history is beyond the scope of this article, but here are some of the key developments. Some of these also have a bearing on current issues and decisions. Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.)

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Civics U

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

emphasis added] Article I, Secion 8k, Clause 1 the U.S. Two differing views of this were represented by James Madison and Alexander Hamilton in their articles in The Federalist Papers written during debate on adopting the Constitution.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 26, 2015

We developed the Civic Engagement Prize to recognize classrooms whose project involved a whole community to solve a persistent local problem. Read my full article on LinkedIn about supporting girls and women in STEM fields. Watch our team’s message to Frankie Woods about the school’s winning project:'

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Edthena

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Find the highlights, article links, and related content below. This Edutopia article provides 6 ways teachers can help build and foster a strong classroom community. Civic Responsibility. This ASCD article notes that asking more questions can make feedback to students more meaningful.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

This article is a partial transcript of an episode of the EdSurge Podcast. Students are looking for something different from teachers and professors as they prepare to enter political and civic life, and that means educators need to change the way they support students when it comes to political engagement.

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Civics U

MAY 5, 2022

It may not be common to include war itself as a formal topic in civic education classes. Nevertheless, at least during a time of visible war and military conflicts, even younger children may have legitimate questions and concerns about such events. There is not always a practical difference in the use of the terms.

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Civics U

JUNE 2, 2022

But space is limited, so this article will close by pointing to the need for depth in civic education studies, and to the need to establish and reestablish the foundation for ethics in our government and society. But this, too, is subject to differing interpretations and applications. Federer, Fame Publishing, Inc.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 2, 2019

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Read the original version here. You can’t help someone solve a problem without knowing what the problem is. Why are they struggling?

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

. — FEBRUARY 13, 2024 De Gruyter and the American Political Science Association (APSA) are pleased to announce agreement on a cooperation partnership to publish two new book series: The De Gruyter-APSA Teaching Civic Engagement Series and The De Gruyter-APSA Political Science Professional Development Series.

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Institute for Citizens & Scholars

AUGUST 28, 2024

Raj Vinnakota and College Presidents for Civic Preparedness members Dartmouth and Hamilton College are featured in a WGBH article on campus civil discourse.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 5, 2019

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Read the original version here. Schools and teachers often use summer as a time to rethink classrooms and learning spaces.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2018

There’s no doubt about the importance of social and emotional competencies in college, civic, career and life success. Jessica Berlinski , Juliette Berg and Maurice Elias contributed to this article. Related: How to sort the good from the bad in OER. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 27, 2015

In the North, legislatures, mayors, civic associations, banks, and citizens all colluded to pin black people into ghettos, where they were overcrowded, overcharged, and undereducated. Be sure to read the whole article at [link]. . … Having been enslaved for 250 years, black people were not left to their own devices.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Young citizens need civics education to understand their constitutionally guaranteed rights. The best civics teachers also help students learn the skills they need to protect their rights. Kymberli Wregglesworth, a 2016 MAHG graduate, teaches Civics, World history and social studies electives at Onaway High School in Michigan.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. For instance, we could use the Civilization video games to learn and blog about political power and civics.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Many cultural centers curate history, geography, and civic exhibits that connect the past with the present. I was first introduced to UGRR at the SUNY Buffalo State College Civic Summit when their educational specialists presented “Lessons from the Field: The Legal Geography of Slavery.”

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Below, I share my lesson sequence for teaching the expressed powers of Congress in my high school Civics and Government class. Most are contained in a straightforward list within Article 1. With my on-level students, I focus our limited time on the 18 powers listed in Article 1. What are the Powers of Congress?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

But they represent a set of life skills – civic skills – that are too important to be confined to such silos. This article was produced in partnership with Times Higher Education. And nor are they. In studying 20th-century fiction, for instance, students come to learn why they should not believe the unvarnished narrations of Nick in F.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

At the beginning of the school year, she said, students in her Civics class were told to watch the news and comment on what they learned using Google Classroom. She didn’t really try to post videos or news articles or anything like that to help us,” Livingston said. In Wisconsin, Livingston is also frustrated.

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Civics U

MARCH 24, 2022

Therefore this article will present a few ideas and elements of economics. These things directly impact people’s lives. Nevertheless, a course in economics is not usually a requirement for high school graduation, nor for most college degrees. Given the current concerns, let us just consider inflation. That it means higher prices is obvious.

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Geogramblings

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

This article was co-authored with Catherine Walker and Nerida Jolley. You can read the introduction here, and then continue with the rest of the article, for free, via the University of Manchester’s website here. Up until 2022, when version 9.0

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Their goal is to create a sentence that they may possibly find in the upcoming article. After the sentences are posted to the digital whiteboard, articles can be read in a whole group or independently. Once the selection has been read, students will identify sentences from the activity that accurately represent the article.

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ACRE

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay penned the Federalist Papers as anonymous articles in New York newspapers from 1787-88. Connections to Arkansas Social Studies Standards: Civics: CPI.1.C.3 1 Analyze the underlying causes and events that led the Founding Fathers to replace the Articles of Confederation with the U.S.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JANUARY 4, 2024

So included here are some of my favorite lessons and activities for teaching the judicial branch in my high school Civics and Government class. Examine the Constitution & Federalist Papers First, give students the text of Article III, Section 1 , where students can see how little the Constitution actually says.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

She also recommended the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) at Ashland University as the ideal MA program for a working teacher interested in encouraging civil discussion of the perennial issues in American civic life.

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Political Science Now

JULY 24, 2024

Her publications include numerous refereed journal articles as well as the book, The Moral Rhetoric of American Presidents , which contribute to our understanding of elected leaders in government. It’s not something that should be an afterthought. It is a necessity.”

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ACRE

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

2 Examine how consumers are affected by raising and lowering interest rates Civics: PRL.7.C.1 To begin, allow students to pair up to read and Mark-Up-The-Text of the article. To expand on your discussions, you can also ask students to investigate headlines in the media to find additional articles on the topic of inflation.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

See the Quartz article linked below for a few examples.). People like predicting the future. And people like reading predictions about the future. But there’s rarely any accountability and many, many predictions fail to come true.

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