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Civics for the Youngest Citizens

Digital Promise

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The civic curriculum for young children usually doesn’t expand beyond “do not talk to strangers,” writes Harvard professor Danielle Allen in her book Talking to Strangers. Read the original version here.

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How one Chicago high school turned the corner using full-time internships

The Hechinger Report

With this “Real-World Learning” program, ChiTech joins a growing number of schools devoting big chunks of the year to internships, despite the perennial classroom time crunch. The internships are also part of a larger turnaround effort at ChiTech, centered on project-based learning.