Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In October, Czarnecki’s article “Migrant Music” was published in The Chronicles of Oklahoma. Czarnecki, a 2022 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, wrote the paper for a “Great Texts” course taught by Professor Stephen Tootle on John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. I had a blast.

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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. One test of good government is whether it is responsive to and good for communities and neighborhoods.

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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. As Lincoln repeated* in his famous Gettysburg Address, government is to be “of the people, by the people, for the people.”

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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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Civics U

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

emphasis added] Article I, Secion 8k, Clause 1 the U.S. There has thus been a tension between providing for the general welfare - also sometimes referred to as the common good – through federal government action, and protecting the respective powers and prerogatives of the states and the people.

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Civics U

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Immigration and immigration reform have been issues in past American history, and are still issues in American government and politics. This article will not enter that debate, but will review key elements in immigration history and law. Government makes arrangements for a person or group of persons to come to the U.S.

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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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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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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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Civics U

JUNE 2, 2022

Even though God is not mentioned in the Constitution, and the first amendment prohibits the government from establishing religion, various characteristics have identified the country as a Christian nation: 1. Christian It has generally been accepted that America was founded on Christian principles and was considered to be a Christian nation.

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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 branch’s building is the literal cornerstone of our government.

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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. With the help of veteran teachers like Lindblom, Thrailkill is well positioned for the task.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

But, because the federal government left reopening plans to the states, which passed the task on to districts, which in many cases left the details to individual principals , students across the country are experiencing vastly different schooling scenarios. Perry is busy. I’m hearing your concerns. All of you have to work Saturday nights.’

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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. They teach self-government as a cooperative activity. Civic engagement involves more than just showing up to vote. Peters agreed.

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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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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. These essays outlined the division of government powers, methods for taxation, as well as foundations for the structure of Congress and the Courts. Government: PP.2.USG.2 Constitution SC.3.USG.5

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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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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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Civics U

JANUARY 6, 2022

The various types of government and economic systems include forms of democracy, dictatorship, monarchy, socialism, communism, feudalism, theocracy, and capitalism. Democracy is the historic form of American government, and capitalism is its historic economic system. Most readers will be familiar with these.) Historically the U.S.

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Political Science Now

JULY 24, 2024

Records are our basis for holding our government accountable and providing transparency. 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 is not a nice thing to have.

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Civics U

MARCH 24, 2022

Therefore this article will present a few ideas and elements of economics. One factor that affects the abundance or availability of money in the economic system is low-interest rates that make it possible for individuals, corporations, and government units to borrow money needed for purchases and projects. But what causes inflation?

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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

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

and Arkansans specifically, and discusses actions taken by government to attempt to stabilize the U.S. 2 Examine how consumers are affected by raising and lowering interest rates Civics: PRL.7.C.1 1 Evaluate interaction among federal, state, and local governments when carrying out public policy PRL.7.C.2 Government: SFG.6.USG.1

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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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Civics U

JANUARY 27, 2022

Preface Part I briefly summarized democracy and capitalism, socialism, and communism as major and currently familiar forms of government and economy, and the predominant systems in the United States, Russia, and China respectively. The country has a wealth of oil and gas reserves, and the government has control over major economic activities.

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Civics U

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The previous article described the governments and economies of Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia. The countries differ from one another and from the United States in the amount of citizen participation and control allowed, and in the degree to which citizens control the government and the government controls the citizens.

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Students of History

JANUARY 10, 2023

This is easiest to do in a Civics or American Government classroom. Students have to find a cartoon that related to our unit (super easy for American Government) and provide a brief explanation of how it connects to our content. In my curriculum , I include a political cartoon analysis activity in each unit.

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Moler's Musing

JANUARY 13, 2024

My essential question for the week was “How is the United States Constitution a model for limited government?” Article 1, 2nd Amendment) on the reverse. I divided students into teams, gave each group a government textbook, and let the race competition begin! I gave them 10 minutes to find facts and design slides.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 12, 2023

At Teaching American History, we know teachers are hungry for resources that help their students understand the nuances of American civic behavior. For secondary and post-secondary government and political science educators, we are proud to recommend our CDC volume, Religious Liberty: Core Court Cases.

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Teaching American History

JULY 9, 2024

Sean Brennan Brennan, a frequent participant in Teaching American History seminars , has long promoted civic education and civil cooperation at the local and state level. He carried on this work while teaching government and an elective course in constitutional, civil and criminal law at Brecksville-Broadview High School.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The next fall, Livingston took a job teaching civics and government at a public middle school. He told her about the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) at Ashland University. When her middle school students asked, “Why do we need to learn about American government in the seventh grade?”

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In recent years, a number of states have passed civics testing mandates to pressure students to become more civically active. And how useful is civic education for those who chose to get involved? One idea that’s taken root is forcing students to take a civics test as a requirement for high school graduation.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

The 2016 election and the tumultuous start to Donald Trump’s presidency, which hits the 100-day mark next week, have presented civics teachers in red, blue and purple states alike with a double-edged sword. Johnson (on screen) overlooks the AP government class of Jo Boggess Phillips in Ripley, West Virginia Photo: Jo Boggess Phillips.

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MPSA

MARCH 30, 2022

Smith, Professor of Political Science, Emporia State University Between 10 and 15 years ago, Political Science experienced a renewed interest in civic education. Graham and I collaborated, and I reached out to local high school civics teachers in Kansas and western Missouri in hopes of meeting with them and sharing our ideas.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

But they are often contentious, and the seven other Ivy League universities pay some property taxes on those buildings or voluntarily pay millions of dollars every year to their local governments and school districts. Civic project’ or ‘land grab’? which had property tax savings of $145 million this year.

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Civics U

AUGUST 8, 2022

The terms federal and federalism can refer to the system of government that divides power between the central (national) government and the states, or they can refer to the central government itself in this system. The first Constitutional convention was called to address concerns about the weak national government.

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