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STUDENT VOICE: ‘Sometimes my voice alone wasn’t enough’

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Throughout elementary school, I was always known as the girl who talked a lot and turned simple conversations into debates. This was the launch of my civics engagement. Related: Making America whole again via civics education. But what are we doing to get students, and citizens in general, civically engaged?

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Helping even middle-of-the-pack students see themselves as leaders

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The February 14 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, gave new life to student activism, prompting a level of civic engagement among students that many had never considered.

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Making positive educational moves during the pandemic

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So Joffe created eLearn.fyi , a database of more than 300 online learning tools, including a civics curriculum founded by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and engineering lessons on how to build a robotic arm. She’s also found it harder to engage with some of her elementary school students.

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Waiting for the traveling teacher: Remote rural schools need more hands-on help

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million students go to public schools in rural areas , more than the combined total of the nation’s 85 largest school districts. Rural students tend to do well in elementary school, but something changes as they get older. More than 9.3 The small town of Campo, Colo., Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report.

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Last week was tough, teachers say. But it wasn’t the first difficult ‘day after’ they’ve faced

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Marie Hydukovich was teaching middle school when she heard that 20 children had been murdered at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. She is currently a library media specialist at South Saint Paul Public Schools, in Minnesota. Credit: Marie Hydukovich. It’s just Tuesday,” Dingle said.

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Baltimore students need more than space heaters; they need justice

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Related: COLUMN: Tolerating failing schools in New Orleans — so long as they’re for black kids. What do y’all think about school being this cold?” author and former NFL linebacker Aaron Maybin asked a group of Baltimore elementary school kids wearing winter coats and hoodies, though they sat in their classroom.

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STUDENT VOICE: Let’s stop the apathy in Kentucky and beyond

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Related: LISTEN: In this Kentucky town, refugees can choose a separate high school. The answer starts in the classroom, where civics education often fails to inspire and engage students. Far too many schools preach, rather than practice, democratic ideals. We need to learn civics from the ground up.

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