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Strengthening Civic Education: The Role of High-Quality Curriculum and Teaching Strategies

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To help bridge this gap, it’s essential to provide educators with high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) and strategies for fostering classrooms that encourage active civic learning. Addressing gaps in civics education is crucial for developing engaged citizens. million to $23 million as grants available to states.

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Digging Up Rural Roots: The Source at the Library of Congress

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Since 2021, the National Council for History Education has partnered with the Library of Congress’ Teaching with Primary Sources program on a nationwide program, “The Rural Experience in America”. Read the blog post about The Source on the Library of Congress’ website here.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Without a doubt we would be living on Pinterest since it has dozens of pinboards – and tens of thousands of pins – related to history , including awesome resource sets from the Stanford History Education Group. For instance, we could use the Civilization video games to learn and blog about political power and civics.

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Elevating Social Studies with High-Quality Instructional Materials

TCI

This blog post explores the critical role of social studies in shaping engaged, informed citizens and how the C3 Framework helps elevate the rigor of social studies education. In the series, we explore how HQIM enhances social studies education, boosts student achievement, and provides criteria for evaluating instructional materials.