Studies Weekly

MAY 6, 2025

Integrating music into social studies lessons offers a dynamic and engaging way to enhance students’ understanding. By incorporating music from different eras and regions, educators can create a multi-sensory learning experience that brings the past to life and fosters a deeper connection to the material.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

How are political science educators bringing the 2024 U.S. What assignments or activities should political science educators use to help undergraduates understand the 2024 U.S. Event: Teaching the 2024 U.S. Engaging the 2024 U.S. APSA’s Engaging the 2024 U.S. campaign and election from multiple perspectives.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

As the frequency of severe weather events increases and the Earth’s temperature inches upward, emotions have intensified for a lot of students in the United States and it turns out that many keep their concerns about living on a warming planet to themselves. The classroom may be the best place for faculty to start.

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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. Me being a first-generation student, I've never had the resources to be able to step into education.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 14, 2025

These pilot experiences were invaluable we observed firsthand how students engaged in compelling questions, analyzed primary sources, and developed their own interpretations of historical events. Some educators were initially hesitant, concerned about time constraints, student readiness, and adapting to a new instructional approach.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

Recently, I attended the 2019 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in Portland, Oregon, hosted by NTEN , to catch up on the newest trends in educational technology (edtech) and learn about cutting-edge tools that may be integrated to boost adult learning and workforce development initiatives at Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

The Chico library space might not be much, but it gives students an opportunity to take a break from the pressure of adapting to the different, said Karen Schreder, an assistant professor of education who works with rural students through the campus’s civic engagement office.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 22, 2025

Join APSAs Committee on the Status of Community Colleges in the Profession for the third event of their professional development workshop series! She has been a Political Science educator for twenty-one years.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Rinderle is working with her union, the Georgia Association of Educators, to fight this unjust termination. Education censorship is a disservice to young people who need to be informed in order to be responsible community members and voters. Educators will not hide in the shadows! Board of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! Most of an average student’s waking hours are spent somewhere other than school.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 2, 2024

election presents educators across the United States with the opportunity to help their students engage in the democratic system. Why is it essential to teach democratic citizenship and civic engagement? What concrete steps can higher educators use to connect students to the U.S. The 2024 U.S. The post 2024 U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

. There is a widespread view in education that poor parents are trouble: They don’t spend enough time reading to children, monitoring their homework, attending school events or helping teachers. Educators, at times, complain bitterly about them, and many policies have been designed to address these issues. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

The answer starts in the classroom, where civics education often fails to inspire and engage students. In a system that all too often doesn’t solicit our input on anything beyond planning social events and fundraisers, too many of us become either oblivious or callous about the very concept of civic engagement.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Route 287, “we are not just in the education business, we are in the relationship business, especially with rural education. 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.

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Political Science Now

JULY 28, 2024

Event: Facilitating Respectful Conversations in the Political Science Classroom Date: Tuesday, August 13, 2024 Time: 1:00 PM EST / 10:00 AM PT Registration: Register here (registration is free) Respectful political dialogue between engaged citizens is a cornerstone characteristic of a healthy democracy. Verónica L.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 9, 2025

Our in-person events are held on the Wednesday prior to the APSA Annual Meeting. punctuated equilibrium, policy diffusion, advocacy theory, multiple streams theory), and policy areas such as but not limited to education, higher education, housing, immigration, and environmental/energy policy.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 6, 2024

Join students, educators, policymakers, and leaders in the public and private sectors, during Civic Learning Week , March 11–15, 2024, to highlight and further energize the movement for civic education in states and communities across the nation. Who Can Participate in Civic Learning Week?

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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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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. But to increase access for students who are off campus or are social distancing, it has moved signature in-person events online or offered a virtual option.

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

Murray, Weber State University (Presenter) Allison Rank, SUNY, Oswego State Session Description: Democratic erosion in the United States—rendered vivid in the events of January 6, 2021—as well as the global decline of democratic regimes should push us to reflect on how we introduce politics to students.

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Political Science Now

JUNE 3, 2024

Event: Engaging the 2024 U.S. You can check out the recording of our first webinar, Preparing Students for the 2024 Election: Campus Engagement and Civic Education Webinar , and the supplemental resources here. The post Webinar Series: Engaging the 2024 U.S. The 2024 U.S. How should we interpret the U.S.

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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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ED Surge

JUNE 17, 2022

We do this first by equipping our educators with the resources they need to effectively teach our students our hardest historical lessons, including George Floyd’s death and the history that envelops it. Facing History encourages educators to reflect on what events mean to them before they begin a dialogue with their students.

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Political Science Now

JUNE 5, 2024

Although I’m still early in my career, being an APSA member, and a member of the Political Science Education section has kept me informed, and helped me to connect with like-minded colleagues. Similarly, I believe that we must ensure that all institutions (not just educational) are diverse, equitable, and inclusive of all peoples.

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Political Science Now

MAY 12, 2025

APSAs teaching and learning symposia provide a workshop environment where scholar-educators with similar goals can come together to share their own practices and research related to teaching and create new teaching resources for their courses. To contribute teaching materials to an APSA Educate resource collection on American Politics.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Students are the experts on their own experience,” said Sonya Heisters of YouthTruth, adding, “It’s important that education decision makers from principals to superintendents, and from education funders to the education secretary listen to this feedback.”. A positive school climate has been shown to boost academic achievement.

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2025

But, yes, at the end of the day, if more people, more Americans understood what teachers are teaching in history classrooms, theyd have a very different attitude about how to fix some of the problems of public education. It creates a lot more work for educators, Futrell says. It is basically taking away from our instructional time.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

Last Thursday was the latest in a decades-long string of markedly difficult days for educators — the “day after,” when the country begins to process and some teachers push aside planned lessons to explore students’ questions and unpack their emotions. Together, they watched the second tower fall. The next day, Sept. All teaching is political.

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

College Student Political Participation in the Context of a Polarized Nation and an International Pandemic: Do Campus Civic Engagement Efforts Matter? A cultivated campus voting culture from 2016 onward, driven by campus resources devoted to events, voter education, and outreach, also factored. appeared first on.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2018

Higher Education. At an event at the Brookings Institution after the riots in Baltimore in 2015, Derek Douglas, vice president for civic engagement at the University of Chicago and former member of the White House Domestic Policy Council, discussed how planning can go awry. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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