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Teaching ‘action civics’ engages kids — and ignites controversy

The Hechinger Report

The New Civics threatens to replace traditional civics education with Neo-Marxist ‘social justice’ propaganda, vocational training for left-wing activism, and Alinsky-style community organizing techniques,” the head of the association, Peter Wood, wrote in a blog announcing the coalition. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Call for Chapters: Teaching Civic Engagement in Challenging Times: Global Perspectives on Democratic Education for All

Political Science Now

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.

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OPINION: Educators must be on the frontline of social activism

The Hechinger Report

I taught my students to respect the power of civic engagement and social activism. We must do this through teaching, learning and advocacy — as well as social activism and civic engagement. Recent politics has made it hard to extend that work. I have trained in, taught and led educator preparation programs.

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Forget civics class: Students want to make a difference in real life

The Hechinger Report

The committees are different from traditional student government, she said, because any student can join. Teaching about civic engagement only once in a while is like teaching someone how to swim without ever putting them in the water.”

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Webinar Series: Teaching the 2024 U.S. Election

Political Science Now

Her research agenda focuses on political science pedagogy, campus-based civic engagement, and pop culture & politics. She is the recipient of the Barbara Burch Award for Faculty Leadership in Civic Engagement (American Democracy Project, June 2024) and the Stand Out Faculty Award (ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge, November 2019).

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OPINION: Kicking civics out of class and taking it to the streets

The Hechinger Report

In short, they are demonstrating what real civic engagement looks like. Yet how do our schools prepare them for these actions when the civics topics they learn in school do not include logical and critical thinking about how government systems work, and how public engagement in the processes can create the change they hope to see?

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Facebook Makes It Cheap to Market to New Students. But It Costs Colleges Dearly.

ED Surge

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.