Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Reading is one way to see oneself in history, to learn about others, and to consider ways to shape a more just and joyful future. 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. We Want to Go to School!:

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Museum Civic Engagement Civics History 111

C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Image of New York State Archives and Museum in Albany, New York Making connections with cultural centers offers educators a measure of expertise outside their own content knowledge and pedagogical skill. Doing so also offers valuable resources that can be used to help bring history to life.

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Cultures Heritage Civic Engagement Civics 52

Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Read her interview discussing her experience with civic education and civic engagement at the high school level here. At Poolesville High School, I am a part of the humanities magnet program where I am supported as I study my interests in political science, writing, editing, and history.

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High School Civic Engagement Civics Social Justice 48

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Many of their neighbors already mistrust them after histories of unbridled expansion and heavy-handed treatment such as the kind that occurred in West Philadelphia. Harris reached out, and today Widener runs a charter school for local children, offers free health and physical therapy clinics and is helping restore a museum. “I

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Civics Civic Engagement Economics Museum 90

ED Surge

MAY 7, 2025

With a curriculum that includes slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, two world wars and the Civil Rights Movement, American history teachers are used to venturing into emotionally charged subjects. These are people who went into the profession because they love our country, they love our history, they love our founding ideals.

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History Civics Museum American History 103