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JULY 28, 2024

How can political science educators scaffold productive civic dialogue on contentious political issues? She also leads the RiceVotes Collective and teaches the Capstone course for the Certificate in Civic Leadership students. election and other common political science themes?

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NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Most students in the California State University, Chico library were silently poring over books or computers on a recent afternoon, but one group was tucked into a corner peppering university president Stephen Perez with questions. CHICO, Calif. This story also appeared in Los Angeles Times What’s the world’s smallest mountain range?

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

. — On the long drive south, as the land on the horizon turned from mottled green to dusty brown, the college professor’s Subaru carried four cartons of doughnuts, two bags of fresh produce and a bin of children’s books. This story also appeared in High Country News. All of it was destined for rural schools. The small town of Campo, Colo.,

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 23, 2024

The APSA-PSA International Partnerships Award, jointly supported by the Political Studies Association of the UK and APSA , honors political scientists engaged in collaborative and productive cross-national partnerships that make a significant contribution to the discipline in the areas of teaching, research, or civic engagement.

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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. Senator Bob Graham and his co-author Chris Hand published the first edition of their book America: The Owner’s Manual in 2009. Retired U.S. From there, things got complicated.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

This model of teaching could be used in a range of disciplines beyond journalism, at both high school and college, to engage students in complex issues and disciplines. Her latest book is After the Education Wars: How Smart Schools Upend the Business of Reform (The New Press, 2018).

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The research did find benefits of the activities as well, with a significant boost in feelings of solidarity with classmates and civic engagement. He is a professor of education at California State University, Long Beach and author of the book, “ Reducing School Shootings.”

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 2, 2024

She began her career at Yale University, where she co-created the Center for the Study of Race, Inequality and Politics and received tenure with the publication of her first pathbreaking book, The Boundaries of Blackness: AIDS and the Breakdown of Black Politics.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Some wearily set down their books and wolf down fast food for their dinners. To commemorate its 30th anniversary, Campus Compact has asked its members to develop “civic action plans” by March reaffirming their commitment to what it calls the public purposes of higher education. Nearly 450 have signed on.

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Political Science Now

JULY 17, 2024

Volume 21, Issue 2 BOOK AWARDS Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs Recipient: Olukunle P. Kammerer Award for the best book published during the previous calendar year in the field of U.S.

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

APSA makes awards for the best dissertations, papers and articles, and books in the various subfields, and for career achievement in research, teaching and service to the discipline.  Bunche Award for best book on ethnic and cultural pluralism Benjamin E.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Perhaps, we could restore the foundation that our public schools were founded on — the notion that America’s public schools were founded to promote civic engagement and deliberative skills—skills that our democracy depended on to survive and thrive. But, perhaps, we could start with our schools. Kitzmiller Ph.D.

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2025

A lot more places have seen efforts to remove books from libraries or to ban certain titles, which have an effect for history teachers, but its less focused specifically on whats happening in history classrooms, Gillis said.

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