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Strengthening Civic Education: The Role of High-Quality Curriculum and Teaching Strategies

TCI

It has enabled states to expand access to culturally relevant content, address equity concerns, and enhance students’ digital skills and civic readiness. Emphasis on Social Studies Practices: Materials emphasize inquiry-based learning, analysis of primary and secondary sources, and the development of critical-thinking skills.

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How Digital Credentials Can Elevate Existing Programs

ED Surge

They do this by mapping courses and activities to institutional competencies: critical thinking, analytical thinking, communication, social awareness and responsibility, creativity and innovation, and leadership and collaboration. “We Communication is vital to creating a successful program.

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Implementing the Inquiry Design Model for Social Studies in a New Jersey Public School: A Journey of Growth and Discovery

C3 Teachers

It became clear that we needed a core resource that was rigorous and culturally relevant and accessible to our student population. Teachers grew as facilitators of inquiry, fostering discussions, debates, and deep analytical thinking** among students. IDM does just that.

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The Importance of Research in Social Studies Classrooms

Teaching American History

In fleeing the dustbowl conditions of the Midwest, the migrants had “left behind many of their material possessions,” Czarnecki writes, but the folklore collectors “reasoned that they brought instead an intangible cultural heritage in their stories and songs.” Now she sees herself preparing students for lives of civic engagement.

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Elevating Social Studies with High-Quality Instructional Materials

TCI

Educators know that when students engage in lessons, it helps them improve their focus and take more ownership of their learning. Inquiry-based or active learning experiences can have a stronger impact on students and help them develop critical thinking and other necessary skills.

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Theme Panel: Civic Learning on Campus: Bringing Political Science In Mini-Conference I, II and III

Political Science Now

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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OPINION: Our schools must figure out a way to teach this presidential election

The Hechinger Report

Schools are afraid of dividing and triggering their students amid the fraught, frenzied, hyperpartisan, superpolarized and downright ugly political culture of our country right now. I understand — but urge these schools to reconsider. They must figure out a way to teach this election, rather than limiting their students’ education.