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DECEMBER 22, 2016

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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APRIL 18, 2016

Even as poverty rates have grown in the district of about 5,000 students, Clinton has consistently remained an academic powerhouse in a state where many schools are still separate and unequal. You can usually trace it back to strong civic leadership,” McGraw said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Last week, in a letter addressed to the “KIPP Team and Family,” the executive leadership of the powerful charter school network announced the dismissal of one of its co-founders, Mike Feinberg, stemming from a sexual abuse allegation by one of Feinberg’s students from the late 1990s. An assistant teacher secretly recorded the incident.

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

It is just one of a slate of waivers approved by lawmakers, including class size, teacher preparation time, hiring and firing rules, and others, allowing traditional public schools to operate with the same educational requirements as their area charter schools. My degree is in psychology but I’m teaching history!

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2018

But civics teachers can’t afford not to address Trump’s racist behaviors, especially his recent bigoted remarks on Jan. I teach civics. There is more critical thinking that civics teachers can encourage. . Teachers should stay focused on how the current moment relates to a long history of U.S. Mississippi Learning.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

The subject line read: “Living history.”. She wanted every middle schooler at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington D.C. Before the coronavirus shutdown, middle school Principal Laina Cox works with students at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington D.C. 7, the day after the attack.

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JULY 17, 2024

First, Sinovuyo described Launch’s distinct approach to life orientation (LO), a compulsory subject added to the national curriculum during the transition from apartheid that focuses on the study of self and society through lessons on personal and social development, civics and human rights, health, and career readiness.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Students walk to class at a California charter school. Educational leaders must take responsibility for instilling basic civic practices and virtues in their students immediately, or they may lose the option to autocrats who have other ideas on how to run a country. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

And in New Orleans, the majority of the public schools are under the jurisdiction of the state, but charter companies make most of the educational decisions, a trend that was further accelerated after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Charter schools are tuition-free, independently operated public schools.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

DETROIT — Taking a trip down memory lane from the sidewalk in front of Western International High School, former civics teacher Keith Johnson shared the school’s ghost story, a tall tale about a child who died in a 1935 fire there. School staff worried they and the students were exposed to toxic mold.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Related: After shocking election, New York history teacher tries to alleviate ‘despair, anxiety or indignation’. Sarah Swanson-Hysell, a teacher at Lighthouse Community Charter School in California’s Oakland Unified School District, sympathizes with students like Benjamin. And one man does not run the country.

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