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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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. Seventeen years in the classroom taught him the importance of expanding that work to students.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Fifth grade Georgia teacher, Katie Rinderle, has been terminated for reading My Shadow Is Purple to her students , a book she purchased at her school’s Scholastic book fair. Rise Up and Write It By Nandini Ahuja Illustrated by Anoosha Syed A young girl learns about civic engagement as she advocates for a safe habitat for butterflies.

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Museum Civic Engagement Civics History 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

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. “I realized that there was an opportunity sitting right in front of me,” she said. – CAYLA BAMBERGER.

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Education Civics Civic Engagement Psychology 116

Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This summer, the American Political Science Association partnered with Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) District’s Summer Rise Program to offer three high school students the opportunity to gain experience in political science knowledge production and higher education non-profits.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Eventually the school superintendent, who doubles as a special education teacher and a substitute, asked if he’d be interested in doing more; the schools have been short-staffed for years. million students go to public schools in rural areas , more than the combined total of the nation’s 85 largest school districts.

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World History Civic Engagement High School Elementary School 141

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The newly formed Philadelphia Education Innovation Cluster is aiming to infuse the city’s namesake fraternal spirit into their regional education ecosystem, a network that includes community centers, art organizations, public television, Philadelphia Public Schools (representing 130,000 students and 300 schools), and more.

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Civic Engagement Heritage Charter School Civics 72

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. The scores tell an all-too-familiar story.

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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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Civics Civic Engagement Teaching Political Science 52

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Census, we had taught them how to plumb demographic data and to understand why the census was key to both political apportionment and allocating federal funds for institutions like public schools. They fanned out across historically undercounted communities like Harlem and reported on the 2020 census. Still, we were taking a risk.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Many institutions provide legal and medical clinics and intervene to improve their local public schools. Rutgers University hosts a branch of the county public library. Northeastern University is offering $6.5 million in loans to local businesses at below-market rates. Duquesne, in Pittsburgh, runs a community pharmacy.

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Civics Civic Engagement Economics Museum 83

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

They better look like the public school students they allegedly serve. Nonprofits that take money from wealthy donors who aren’t serious about taking on the values of the communities they fund are a major reason why the rich continue to hold on to more power than they deserve while urban schools stay in reform mode.

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Social Justice Civic Engagement Advocacy Civics 86

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2024

If you’re trying to diversify the elite and trying to make the leading spaces of America look like America, you can’t go to the same 20 schools.” — Sandra Ukah, a sophomore at the University of Florida in Gainesville “College is so important to learn how to be civically engaged, and I think a lot of colleges need to have a greater focus on this.

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Education Civic Engagement Civics Private School 125

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. I am not alone.

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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. She is currently a library media specialist at South Saint Paul Public Schools, in Minnesota.

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Charter School Civics Middle School Civic Engagement 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

As we approach a milestone for Brown, let’s seize this opportunity to recommit to one of its primary goals: integrated public schools as “the very foundation of good citizenship.” Thinking of school integration not as an individual benefit for one group of students but as an essential component of a healthy multicultural democracy.

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Civic Engagement Civics Psychology History 138