Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Young citizens need civics education to understand their constitutionally guaranteed rights. The best civics teachers also help students learn the skills they need to protect their rights. Kymberli Wregglesworth, a 2016 MAHG graduate, teaches Civics, World history and social studies electives at Onaway High School in Michigan.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. They offer an invitation to analyze how mathematics can be applied to promote civic engagement, advocacy, policy change and increased access to resources.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Something that was a really common thread was older students who said they had the exact same experience in middle school or high school, where for 20 minutes, they thought they were dying, and they were texting their goodbyes to their parents, and then it turned out to be just a drill,” she says.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

But when one of her professors announced an opportunity for students to participate in a research internship to study young people’s well-being and civic engagement in the Coachella Valley, her interest was piqued. She signed up. “Me Me being a first-generation student, I've never had the resources to be able to step into education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2020

When my District of Columbia public high school, The School Without Walls, closed in response to the coronavirus pandemic, all of my courses moved to an online platform. High school students like me might not be interested in the 2020 Census. The best civics lesson requires you to leave the classroom.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

As a former high-school social studies teacher and professional development specialist, I have found that connecting with cultural centers (e.g., Many cultural centers curate history, geography, and civic exhibits that connect the past with the present.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2018

This was the launch of my civics engagement. Related: Making America whole again via civics education. People around the country talk a lot about the importance of civics education, how youth are the future and how we can effect change to create a stable and improved country. About voting? Related: Go vote.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

Another troubling finding, from a survey conducted this spring by SimpsonScarborough: Forty-one percent of minority high-school seniors say it’s likely they won’t go to college at all in the fall or “it’s too soon to say,” compared to 24 percent of white high-school seniors.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2021

This results in healthy children meeting developmental milestones, healthy parents with family-supporting jobs and vibrant and civically engaged families and communities. Related: As Harlem Children’s Zone moves to export its model nationwide, Obama’s Promise Neighborhoods offer cautionary tales.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

Peyton’s testimony is an example of “action civics,” a growing, if controversial, trend in American education of which Massachusetts is the undisputed leader. Peyton Amaral, an eighth grader at Morton Middle School in Fall River, Mass., They liken it to a laboratory in science class, where students learn civics by doing civics.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2020

Americans who have earned at least a bachelor’s degree experience half the unemployment rate of those with high school diplomas alone. People with at least a bachelor’s degree contribute, on average, $21,000 annually in taxes, while those with a high school diploma alone contribute $5,000.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Rural students tend to do well in elementary school, but something changes as they get older. Although rural schools have made tremendous gains in high school graduation rates, these students are still less likely than their suburban and urban peers to successfully continue their education after high school.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2019

Penida-Briceno, a senior with blue-tipped hair who hopes to become a biochemist, was one of two dozen teens at the high school in Flushing, Queens, who helped dream up the idea of building a greenhouse after learning that students could choose how to spend $2,000 of the school’s budget this year.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2017

“If your goal is self-actualization for the child, and you want them to discover what they’re good at, then personalizing learning sounds like it would be really wonderful,” said Daniel Willingham, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia who studies how cognitive psychology applies to schooling.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2018

That phrase – Kids are people, too – has particular poignancy now, amid the debates, ranging from thoughtful to inane to vitriolic, sparked by the students who survived last month’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Kids, everywhere, are people. They are not people in training.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2023

Many educators probably weren’t surprised by today’s announcement of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test results for civics and history. In past years, the scores for civics have been flat, which is hardly encouraging. At the end of 2022, Congress grew the federal allocation for civic education from $7.75

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Credit: Matt Krupnick/The Hechinger Report High school students in remote towns across rural Northern California have a low opinion of the university, said sophomore Brynna Garcia, one of the event’s moderators, partly because — as Perez acknowledged — Chico recruiters rarely travel to those towns to speak with prospective students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Sophia Joffe, a high school senior who launched a database for enriched remote learning, at her family’s home in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. Guiding high school peers through online learning maze. Credit: Brett Gundlock for The New York Times. – DELECE SMITH-BARROW.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2021

But unless the eligibility date is updated, the number of high school graduates eligible for the protection will shrink every year before vanishing entirely. Since the Obama Administration created DACA in 2012, more than 825,000 undocumented immigrants have successfully applied for the protection. The DACA program is due for an update.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

MAY 31, 2024

Teaching civics and government is different from teaching history—it really requires a different set of go-to lesson ideas and projects. So, if you are brand new to the subject and need to know everything about how to teach civics, or you’re struggling to find ways to go beyond the textbook, welcome!

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2019

It matters for employment stability and civic engagement. The many causes of this begin in primary and secondary grades, where research shows that girls are earlier to apply themselves, while boys are more likely to drop out, impatient to begin earning money and unwilling to spend further years in school.

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Political Science Now

JULY 26, 2024

We welcome submissions for 2025 TLC tracks , and perhaps others, as we rethink the future of a political science education and why teaching political science matters. Roundtables facilitate participants to discuss and debate on a specific topic. Roundtables facilitate participants to discuss and debate on a specific topic.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

August 15, 2018 — The first day of school at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. School systems are failing their students with outdated and inconsequential civics education that is only focused on facts and memorization. In short, they are demonstrating what real civic engagement looks like.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

At Bishop Seabury, a small independent school in the Episcopal tradition, high school students take two or more of Czarnecki’s courses. High school students are not “too young” to probe historians’ methods, Czarnecki said, given what’s at stake. Now she sees herself preparing students for lives of civic engagement.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

In a recent study , my colleagues at the University of Massachusetts and I compared white students in segregated white schools with those in racially diverse schools. We found that the latter reported higher levels of civic engagement and a sense of belonging.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

AUGUST 24, 2023

First, you’re introducing them at the beginning of your Civics class before diving into the Constitution’s actual text. That’s why I wanted to share my l esson sequence for teaching the principles of the Constitution in my senior Civics class. Especially middle and high school students.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

. — to understand how parents decide where to live and send their children to school. After the study had begun, Kingsley administrators began the process of redrawing attendance boundaries for the district’s high schools to balance attendance numbers. Affluent parents bring powerful resources to schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

Caroline Patrie is a high school science teacher in Maine’s Portland Public Schools; her first day as a teacher was September 11, 2001. Construction had pushed back the new school year at her Vermont high school. Credit: Caroline Patrie. September 11 was Caroline Patrie’s first day teaching.

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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. Graham and I collaborated, and I reached out to local high school civics teachers in Kansas and western Missouri in hopes of meeting with them and sharing our ideas.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2017

Nationwide, the number of 18-year-old, straight-out-of-high school college students will fall over the next few decades, according to the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, which tracks this. Related: Colleges face a new reality, as the number of high school graduates will decline.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

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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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

This roundtable will focus on Balasco, Forestal, and Abernathy’s Engaging Citizenship, a forthcoming introduction to politics textbook (Oxford University Press 2025). political system within a global context, and 3) to engage with the political process as educated and empowered citizens.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

A friend who taught in the Philadelphia public schools for nearly four decades said that the presidential election made her feel like the schools had failed to do their job; that her work, as high school teacher, had failed to help her students understand the importance of democratic engagement.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Three states — Florida, Illinois and Massachusetts — have in recent years revamped their social studies and civic education standards and have created legislation to implement modern civic education. Spend some time on news literacy and Civic Online Reasoning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2024

I grew up in a high school that was mostly conservative, and I’d have enough of that. .” — Morgan Vanderlaan, a sophomore at the University of Florida in Gainesville “The reason I didn’t end up applying to Notre Dame or Vanderbilt was because I saw the majority of their students were conservative.

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