Institute for Citizens & Scholars

AUGUST 21, 2024

Two College Presidents for Civic Preparedness member institutions are featured in an Inside Higher Ed article for taking proactive steps to prioritize civil discourse and civic engagement this fall.

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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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MAY 20, 2024

Minnesota Civics Test Update: In 2023, the Minnesota Legislature repealed the civics test requirement.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no longer need to administer the civics test ( Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 120B.02, 02, subdivision 3 has been repealed by Chapter 55, Article 2, Section 66 ).

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Political Science Now

MARCH 19, 2025

Samantha’s dissertation focuses on the impacts of urban immigrant inclusion policies on the participation and civic engagement of immigrant and minoritized communities. The nonprofit also has a civic engagement team, which focuses on turning low-propensity voters out to the polls. Learn more here.

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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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Political Science Now

MARCH 26, 2025

This study investigates, for Black women and Latinas, whether their views on donations to candidates differ from their views on other forms of civic and political engagement. Read the full article.

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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

AUGUST 19, 2022

Constitution The previous Civics U article on Federalism dealt with the division and assignment of power between the federal government and the states as established in the Tenth Amendment. The Texas Constitution reflects both the power of the state and the power of the people as follows: THE TEXAS CONSTITUTION ARTICLE 1.

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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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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In October, Czarnecki’s article “Migrant Music” was published in The Chronicles of Oklahoma. Probing the Historical Portrait of Migrant Farmworkers Czarnecki’s article examines the popular portrait of midwestern farmworkers who migrated to California in the 1930s, a portrait drawn by historians, folklore collectors, and Steinbeck’s novel.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 22, 2025

Her academic interests include American Government institutions and voting behavior, State and Local Government, Women and Politics as well as issues around citizenship, civic education, and political science education and pedagogy. Department of Education as a HACU National Internship Fellow.

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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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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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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

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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The exercise was part of “Civic Online Reasoning,” a series of news-literacy lessons being developed by Stanford researchers and piloted by teachers at a few dozen schools. Can middle-school students spot “native advertising” (ads masquerading as articles) on a crowded news website? They got duped.”.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Students worked in small groups as they combed through Articles I, II, and III of the Constitution, trying to answer the questions: What provisions keep the three branches of government separate? Citizen Action Toward a More Perfect Union But if there are no certain answers in civic life, students wonder, how can they participate in it?

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

Students worked in small groups as they combed through Articles I, II, and III of the Constitution, trying to answer the questions: What provisions keep the three branches of government separate? Citizen Action Toward a More Perfect Union But if there are no certain answers in civic life, students wonder, how can they participate in it?

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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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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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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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Let's Cultivate Greatness

AUGUST 11, 2024

So included here are some of my favorite lessons and activities for teaching the legislative branch in my high school Civics and Government class. It was the United States’ only branch of government under the Articles of Confederation. The types of things Congress can make laws about are explicitly listed in Article I, Section 8.

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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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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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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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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

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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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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