Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Yet as schools break away from traditional models of education, new challenges emerge. We wanted to know: what do educators see as their top challenges? Challenge-based, problem-based, project-based, and civic learning through community engagement are approaches that share a common interest in authentic learning.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. It’s about civic responsibility,” Polites said. It’s about civic responsibility,” Polites said. “I Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Many working on an elementary education degree are given free rein to take whatever general education course interests them, and one called The Sexual Revolution of the 1960sno doubt proves more compelling to the average college student than a course entitled From the American Revolution to the Civil War.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2020

Liberal arts education has two problems. First, no one agrees on what it means — some even think it’s about political indoctrination. Second, the public is skeptical of the value of a liberal arts education. It aims to cultivate attributes — empathy is one — associated with leadership and civic responsibility.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2018

But if this civic action is to be sustained and to extend to topics beyond gun violence and school safety, schools need to do more to nurture these students’ dispositions toward political participation so they can continue to engage in informed and effective ways. Higher Education. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

According to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) , social studies is the integrated study of social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence. At its core, social studies aims to equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to actively participate in civic affairs.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

There’s good news in findings like these for educators looking for opportunities to affect change. The snapshot of our survey about how college students respond to climate change tells us they have devoted considerably more attention to thinking about climate change than their counterparts in the general population have.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2018

Despite the claims of those who propose to “disrupt” education with video lessons and a well-intentioned emphasis on STEM, reading remains the backbone of a real education. That’s why advanced reading correlates so highly with critical thinking skills. Related: Can literacy coaches help solve Mississippi’s education woes?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2016

You can gain the same skills — critical thinking, civics, writing — through different content that feels more relevant.”. These are very talented students who, for a variety of reasons, rarely having to do with their own issues, are going to get bypassed if we don’t draw them into the education system,” Cantor said.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Wright would come to mind as an example of how to do education right. I came to Clemson University and the teacher education program during COVID-19.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

This month’s Conference of the Parties , or COP 27, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, the United Nations’ annual “let’s not burn the planet” gathering, has a brand-new focus on education. 18, is holding in-person and virtual events at a “Climate Education Hub.” “We education.). For the first time, this COP, which runs through Nov.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The best civics lesson requires you to leave the classroom. The higher-order thinking that researchers predict will survive impending technological advancement is precisely the one in teachers’ toolkits. to discuss how public education will adapt to a rapidly changing world. Related: Go vote.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Here are some of my favorite lessons and activities for teaching the executive branch in my high school Civics and Government class. Every partfrom the Department of Education to the Environmental Protection Agencycontributes to executing laws passed by Congress and serving the publics needs. What does the Executive Branch Do?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. For instance, we could use the Civilization video games to learn and blog about political power and civics. We’d have a variety of Social Studies simulations and games available to us.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

I believe that the climate movement is the most interesting movement in education,” said Oren Pizmony-Levy, associate professor of International and Comparative Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. She said, “Let’s give them the data points to critically think and draw conclusions.”

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

In response, some higher education institutions are creating microcredential programs that positively impact student success, but you don’t have to create an entirely new program to show your institution’s value. However, higher education cannot continue to assume that it knows what employers want and need.

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TCI

MARCH 1, 2024

Geography education plays a pivotal role in cultivating global awareness and critical thinking. Integration of Economics and Civics for Real-World Connections Geography is only one of the social science disciplines. The much-loved Geography Alive! Watch this video that introduces the Monsoon Asia unit.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Jigsaw, along with building content knowledge encourages students to discover more about their peers while contributing to a common educational task such as reading or researching. Jigsaw Strategy Oct. February 26, 2024 Lesson 5: Who Can Run For Office February 26, 2024 Lesson 6: How Do We Choose Leaders?

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

This makes them easy to differentiate for special education students with accommodations. These activities will include primary source analysis and critical thinking practice that is essential to getting kids ready for their assessments.

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Students of History

JANUARY 3, 2023

Another trend in social studies education is the emphasis on project-based learning. By actively engaging with the material in this way, students are able to develop critical thinking skills and a deeper understanding of the subject matter. I have these available for my entire curricula in World and US History.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

The education system itself had barely adapted to the new global realities. Business education, I thought, could lead the way out of this, if for no other reason than that at various points in history, business had shown itself to be responsive to a rapidly changing world. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When it was confirmed that I would be developing and piloting our school’s first civics course, I began to think about my eighth-graders more intently. I, Mr. Billups , would be entrusted with the task of teaching civics in a politically polarized atmosphere at a culturally and racially diverse school in Boston.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

At the same time, questions of effectiveness and inclusion across our education system reveal deep cause for concern. Our education system is failing to educate the next generation to face the challenges of our times. Of course, in our multicultural and polarized society, it’s hard to teach civics in a way that avoids tension.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

School systems are failing their students with outdated and inconsequential civics education that is only focused on facts and memorization. The simple multiple-choice questions found on most civics tests require memorization of unconnected facts in order to pass. Community connections are also key to civic engagement.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2014

This past year was eventful in education – we saw new measures to connect schools around the country , concepts like maker spaces, design thinking, and coding make their way into the mainstream, and teachers become more tech-savvy and connected. Looking to 2015, what will the new year bring for the future of education?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

Headlining this proposal is a plan to merge the Departments of Education and Labor into a single federal agency, the Department of Education and the Workforce. However, the chief problem in this country has been our nefarious desire to link education and labor — at times with chains. Sure, education is linked to the workplace.

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ED Surge

APRIL 25, 2022

When social media came along, higher education marketers were quick to recognize the value in building communities and audiences around their brands. Higher education marketers moved more and more of our strategy toward paid social media marketing. And the price for this marketing utopia?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2018

If the country is going to progress, all students need to learn in this critical moment that American “greatness” can never come from exclusion. . Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ strategy so far, as we saw most particularly in her limp reaction to Charlottesville. Higher Education. I teach civics.

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Living Geography

DECEMBER 4, 2024

ERASMUS+ is sadly no more, but I've started working on a project which is funded by the Civics Innovation Hub. Details of the project: The GEODEM-AI project aims to encourage a healthy, critical view of ethical issues related to the use of AI in Geography teaching and learning. This has been published - see the link above.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

The collective bargaining simulation was organized by the DePaul University Labor Education Center, which runs the exercises in roughly 10 high schools a year to introduce students to economic justice and the negotiating power of unions. CFT, which represents roughly 120,000 educators, is lobbying for $2.7 Higher Education.

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

Engaging Citizenship introduces foundational concepts in political science through the lens of citizenship, democracy, and civic engagement, highlighting the relevance of the discipline to students’ lives and encouraging them to become engaged and empowered citizens.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 23, 2022

Most importantly, I want the course content to be relevant to their lives as future teachers, and I want them to see themselves as civic and political actors. 6; Love, 2019). than to disclose their perspective on abortion.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Educational leaders must take responsibility for instilling basic civic practices and virtues in their students immediately, or they may lose the option to autocrats who have other ideas on how to run a country. Education isn’t just affected by the problem; it’s a part of it.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2021

Our job as educators is to make and model good conscious choices about what we believe, and to make that necessarily fallible belief system as transparent as we can…”. We all know that fostering critical thinking skills is an essential part of this process. As a high school teacher of U.S. As a high school teacher of U.S.

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Diane Ravitch

MARCH 8, 2024

Denis Smith, retired educator, writes: In case anyone hasn’t noticed, our republic is on fire. Yes, learning about capitalism is more important for Ohio students than the critical need for media literacy and increased research and critical thinking skills in an age of artificial intelligence and fake news.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2020

They must figure out a way to teach this election, rather than limiting their students’ education. Three states — Florida, Illinois and Massachusetts — have in recent years revamped their social studies and civic education standards and have created legislation to implement modern civic education.

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