The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Davis, a paraprofessional in Connecticut’s Hartford Public Schools, was concerned about students feeling isolated and not having enough food, and about colleagues confronting the dual stressors of losing family members and fearing that they’d lose their jobs. “A . – CAYLA BAMBERGER. Shellye Davis spent the spring worried.

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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.

High School 47

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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

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

MAY 3, 2023

In Oklahoma City Public Schools, teachers say they are able to tackle topics such as Manifest Destiny by presenting information to students and having students drive discussion in a way that lets them see a complicated philosophy from different perspectives. million to $23 million.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

With economic segregation in the United States worsening, there is likely to be a growing number of school districts where poor children, and poor parents, predominate. Yet, economic segregation, which is more pronounced among families with children, also creates public school districts where affluent families predominate.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

Arizona educators, who walked out of classrooms and schools on April 26, are the latest to join teachers in Kentucky, Oklahoma and West Virginia in actively protesting and raising concerns with their legislatures. In short, they are demonstrating what real civic engagement looks like. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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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

Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

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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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

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. The resulting voter apathy follows a natural logic: If my voice doesn’t matter in school, then how could my ballot?

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MPSA

MARCH 30, 2022

The political science teaching world was abuzz with ideas about how to get students to roll up their sleeves, get involved in government at the local level, and prepare for lives of civic engagement. These citizens have little interest in civic engagement. I was deeply involved in this process. Others were not so sure.

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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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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

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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