Digital Promise

AUGUST 5, 2019

Wilson co-leads a summer institute called Learning Environments for Tomorrow (LEFT) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education — bringing together researchers, architects, designers, and educators to explore how learning spaces can support various goals, such as playfulness, collaboration, and civic engagement.

Pedagogy 83

Pedagogy Civic Engagement Civics Economics 83

The Hechinger Report

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. Faculty were encouraged to do research in the city. Widener’s is an approach that appears to be spreading.

Civics 82

Civics Civic Engagement Economics Museum 82

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2019

It matters for employment stability and civic engagement. “It’s a crazy cycle,” said Adrian Huerta, an assistant professor of education at the University of Southern California who focuses on college access and gender. “We We know that when you have a college education, there are good outcomes with health. Today, 56 percent are women.

Economics 80

Economics Civic Engagement High School Civics 80

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

School systems are failing their students with outdated and inconsequential civics education that is only focused on facts and memorization. The simple multiple-choice questions found on most civics tests require memorization of unconnected facts in order to pass. In short, they are demonstrating what real civic engagement looks like.

Civics 90

Civics Civic Engagement Government High School 90

ED Surge

APRIL 25, 2022

Enrollment marketers piggybacked on the traditional practice from our colleagues in admissions of buying lists of names of students who have taken the ACT and SAT. Higher ed serves as one of the country’s cornerstones of democratic ideals and as a breeding ground for civic engagement and civil dialogue.

Civic Engagement 126

Civic Engagement Civics Critical Thinking Economics 126

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. Now she sees herself preparing students for lives of civic engagement. Then she muses, “More graduate students should submit their research papers, because you never know.”

Social Studies 98

Social Studies Research Archiving American History 98

Political Science Now

JULY 17, 2024

Lasswell Award for the best dissertation in the field of public policy Recipient: Alice Xu, University of Pennsylvania Title: “Segregation and the Spatial Externalities of Inequality: A Theory of Interdependence and Public Goods in Cities” E.E.

Political Science 62

Political Science Civics Civic Engagement Archiving 62

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The co-editors of a forthcoming edited collection in the APSA-De Gruyter Teaching Civic Engagement Series invite authors to submit chapter proposals for a new volume, Teaching Civic Engagement in Challenging Times: Global Perspectives on Democratic Education for All.

Global Perspectives 35

Global Perspectives Civic Engagement Civics Teaching 35

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2020

This year is anything but usual, of course, and the pandemic’s ramifications for in-person civic engagement could make voting harder for young people than it already was. Aiyana Edwards, student and voter-drive organizer, Spelman College.

Civics 82

Civics Civic Engagement Advocacy Research 82

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.

Civics 52

Civics Civic Engagement Teaching Political Science 52