The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2025

Beginning in the late 1980s, the federal government started to collect data on these two important, confounding factors academic achievement before diagnosis and disability severity so that policymakers could see how well students were faring under the 1975 federal law that mandates support for educating students with disabilities.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

A few weeks back I passed along an Education Week article to administrators in my District that highlighted the many technology challenges that states anticipate with common tests. What is the federal government doing to help us get the students where they need to be? They want creative leaders and problem solvers with original ideas!

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Many students enter high school government classes knowing very little about the way the American constitutional system really works. If given only a textbook account of American government, they leave the course still unaware of what self-government requires. Citizens must understand and support it.

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Moler's Musing

JANUARY 24, 2025

It highlights the weaknesses and problems in America before the Constitutionlike taxation without representation, the Articles of Confederation, Shays Rebellion, and foreign and domestic disputesand positions the Constitution as the solution. The establishment of key government structures.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Many students enter high school government classes knowing very little about the way the American constitutional system really works. If given only a textbook account of American government, they leave the course still unaware of what self-government requires. Citizens must understand and support it.

Government 98

Government Teaching Civics American History 98

Teaching American History

MAY 7, 2024

Recently I emailed a question to teacher friends who are graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program. How do you teach students about the challenge of preserving self-government?” I asked them, “What have you learned about the challenge of preserving self-government? I’m Madisyn,” she said.

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ED Surge

APRIL 7, 2025

An article in The New York Times in November 2020 suggested the Multnomah County initiative could be a national model and a blueprint for the rest of the United States. With the latter, preschool programs are vulnerable to changes in governance or an economic downturn.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 14, 2025

This article was originally published at YES! Their infamous love of liberty, radical egalitarianism, and staunch resistance to being governed by powerful outsiders granted them some celebrity across colonial sources. What they really aim for is to govern the county themselves, from the city of Gualaquiza.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Chinas Governance in the New Era of Xi Jinping By Elizabeth J. Operationally, however, its dynamic patterns of governance reflect the shifting concerns of a succession of visionary Communist Party leaders. Read the full article. Institutionally, China closely resembles other former and surviving Communist regimes.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

As Logan wrote in a 2016 American Anthropologist article , “chronic food insecurity is a condition that was made rather than a condition that has always been.” Outside forces uprooted that security. Logan and Kuma began to challenge assumptions about why and how hunger became a modern problem in West Africa.

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Teaching American History

MAY 7, 2024

Recently I emailed a question to teacher friends who are graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program. How do you teach students about the challenge of preserving self-government?” I asked them, “What have you learned about the challenge of preserving self-government? I’m Madisyn,” she said.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2025

When they were completing individual work or were asked to use a one-page article to find a definition of a physics vocabulary word, I heard a disjointed chorus of Hey, Siri! As September turned to October and I spent more time in the classroom, I also noticed my students rarely used Google for their questions.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

In a 16th-century Ain-i-Akbari report on Mughal Emperor Akbars government, an author refers to roti explicitly , explaining that the dish made with flour, milk, ghee, and salt tastes very well, when served hot. As a New York Times article describes, roti is a recipe mastered through repetition.

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Sapiens

MARCH 17, 2025

Article 10 of the treatya starting point for this seriesrequired that the Dogra ruler, in recognition of British supremacy, present annually to the British Government one horse, twelve shawl goats of an approved breed (six male and six female), and three pairs of Cashmere shawls. million (Nanakshahi) rupees.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 26, 2024

The prize committee thought that the article was innovative, as it challenges our conceptions of valuable components of grading. The article focuses on how to assess learning gains through student effort and engagement as opposed to summative demonstration of knowledge only.

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Living Geography

JUNE 14, 2024

A new article in 'Teaching Times' by Mary Colwell gives a bit of an update into the state of the GCSE Natural History, and its possible introduction in 2026. We wait to see if the next government will revive it and make it a reality for first teaching in 2026 (at the earliest).

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2024

That’s particularly the case in K-12 classes, where teaching materials may be hard to parse, according to the preprint of a research article that argues that many of these students have to figure out how to access basic documents on their own, outside of school. While not new, the obligations in the rule have become pressing.

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EdTech K-12 Government Social Justice 143

Political Science Now

APRIL 25, 2025

This piece, written by Ewa Nizalowska, covers the new article by Turkuler Isiksel and Thomas B. Although voting is not the only form of democratic political engagement, we tend to presume that voting makes the regimes we live under fairer, more stable and peaceful, or simply better governed.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune , a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. After a wave of Texas Republicans dominated the ballot box on Election Day, Gov.

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Moler's Musing

MARCH 1, 2025

government? The second source was an article about the backlash to the Gap T-shirt, highlighting the modern-day criticism of the idea. Why or why not? Comparing Motivations : What were the different reasons people moved westward, and how did those reasons create tensions among settlers, Native Americans, and the U.S.

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History Critical Thinking Government Research 122

Political Science Now

APRIL 24, 2025

Do corrupt officials govern differently in elected office? This article develops a theoretical framework and analyzes new data from financial disclosures to estimate the governing costs of corruption. Read the full article.

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Political Science Government 39

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Lesson 4: How Does Our Government Work? 18, 2020 • Studies Weekly Learning Objectives: Students will identify the three branches of the federal government. is governed. is governed. Explain that after the Revolutionary War, the new United States didn’t have a strong government. government. Constitution is.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 20, 2025

Mitchell , Brigham Young University Populisms effects on democracy after populists gain control of government (hereafter, populist incumbents) are some of the best theorized and documented consequences. Read the full article. The Effect of Populist Incumbents on Democracy By Kirk A. Hawkins and Grant A.

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Political Science Government Research 49

Political Science Now

AUGUST 29, 2024

This piece, written by Komal Preet Kaur , covers the new article by Adam Michael Auerbach, Shikhar Singh and Tariq Thachil, “Who Knows How to Govern? This assumption raises critical questions: Do local authorities genuinely have the knowledge required for decentralized governance?

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Government Political Science Economics Research 48

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

For a long time, scholarship focused on formal governing institutions in dictatorships and authoritarians modes of repression and control. Read the full article. What sustains these trends, and can they be countered?

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Government 49

Teaching American History

APRIL 15, 2025

Our work, particularly in the South, has taught us that the United States government has never guaranteed the freedom of oppressed citizens, and is not yet truly determined to end the rule of terror and oppression within its own borders.

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Archiving American History Human Rights Government 59

Moler's Musing

APRIL 11, 2025

No one complained, and the government made sure everything was perfect. Annotate & Tell From there, we jumped into an Annotate & Tell using two primary sourcesnewspaper articles from 1818 and 1825 celebrating the cotton gin. Immigrants had an easy time finding jobs and were treated fairly. The responses were solid. A magician?

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The other day Bill Ferriter told me that he was working on an article for ASCD and asked if I would answer a few questions. In early March of 2009, I was reading my local newspaper, The Staten Island Advance, and came across an article on Twitter. As I read the article I learned more about Twitter and its capabilities.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Ray Tyler Ray Tyler was the 2014 James Madison Fellow for South Carolina and a 2016 graduate of Ashland UniversitysMasters Program in American History and Government. For more classroom-ready Lincoln documents, please see our CDC volume, Abraham Lincoln , available for purchase or download from our bookstore.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In addition, seven states attached a prefatory declaration of rights to their frameworks of government: Virginia (June 1776), Delaware (September 1776), Pennsylvania (September 1776), Maryland (November 1776), North Carolina (December 1776), Massachusetts (March 1780), and New Hampshire (June 1784).

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Government Museum Tradition American History 98

Political Science Now

APRIL 22, 2025

A Turn Against Empire: Benito Jurezs Liberal Rejoinder to the French Intervention in Mexico By Mai Hassan , MIT , Horacio Larreguy , ITAM and Stuart Russell , World Bank Most research on biased public sector hiring highlights local politicians incentives to distribute government positions to partisan supporters. Read the full article.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This would be especially true in the case of unified government where loyalty to party might come to interfere with the system of checks and balances. Given these concerns, it is little wonder that the Founders did not want parties participating in American government.

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Government History American History Tradition 52

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Mallinson , Penn State University States and interest groups are facilitating a redistribution of government powers under a new courts-first federalism. Thus, the combination of model legislation, impact litigation, and courts-first federalism becomes a tool for states to draw power to themselves and from the federal government.

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Government 41

Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

“To be a good member of your community, you really have to understand why people do the things that they do,” says Bryan Little, who teaches both on-level Government and AP Government at McPherson High School in McPherson, Kansas. For Little, government class entails “constitutional study and human behavior study side by side.”

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Humanities Teaching American History Government 52

Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Importantly, the plan for this sanctuary is that the federal government and Native tribes of this part of California will collaboratively manage the CHNMS to protect the region’s marine ecosystems and cultural heritage. If approved, the CHNMS will be the first marine sanctuary in the U.S. proposed by Indigenous peoples.

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Heritage Government Cultures Humanities 133

Moler's Musing

APRIL 30, 2025

Students question the bot like they would a biased newspaper article, a government document, or a historical speech. More accurate? More complete? Would you use this response? This turns AI into the text not the shortcut. Why Fray-I works: It puts students in the drivers seat. Theyre not copyingtheyre critiquing.

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Primary Sources Teaching Social Studies Government 40

Political Science Now

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Who Knows How to Govern? Procedural Knowledge in India’s Small-Town Councils By Adam Michael Auerbach, Johns Hopkins University , Shikhar Singh , Duke University and Tariq Thachil, University of Pennsylvania Governments across the Global South have decentralized a degree of power to municipal authorities. Read the full article.

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