TCI

JANUARY 14, 2025

Engaging students in social studies goes beyond simply covering the material; its about helping them connect historical events to current issues and develop critical thinking skills. Youll also learn about HQIMs impact on academic performance and civic readiness, along with strategies for effective implementation.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

However, recent research highlights the crucial role of social studies instruction in developing strong reading skills. Yet, studies show that integrating social studies into the curriculum can significantly enhance reading comprehension, vocabulary development, and critical thinking.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

However, research increasingly shows that integrating knowledge-rich instruction across subjects is essential for improving literacy, critical thinking, and overall student success. This time allocation persists despite research showing that knowledge-rich instruction in these subjects significantly boosts literacy development.

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Social Studies Primary Sources Critical Thinking Professional Development 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Whether focused on media literacy or data literacy, research suggests a need for this type of education in general. The middle school exercise was almost not included in the study because researchers thought it was too easy, said Sam Wineburg, Stanford professor and lead author of the report. “We

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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. like assigning students one cabinet member to conduct light research on and then create a one-page poster. But first, lets go over what the branch does exactly. What does the Executive Branch Do?

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

At Project Information Literacy (PIL), the nonprofit independent research institute I lead, a group of library and information science and new media researchers — including myself — conduct national research about the information seeking behavior of college students and recent graduates.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Aubrey is the Research Director at Digital Promise. Kelsey is the Research Communications Manager at Digital Promise. Challenge-based, problem-based, project-based, and civic learning through community engagement are approaches that share a common interest in authentic learning. You can reach her on Twitter at @aubreyfrancisco.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2020

In addition to field-specific knowledge in, for example, computer science or history, sound liberal arts education delivers the development of transferable skills, such as “critical thinking.” It aims to cultivate attributes — empathy is one — associated with leadership and civic responsibility.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Related: A study on teaching critical thinking in science. Jim Ryan is executive director of OpenSciEd , an initiative of the National Center for Civic Innovation that partners with states and education leaders to build freely available high-quality middle-grades science curricula. We want them to do better than we have.

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Education Civics Critical Thinking History 145

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. Schleicher found in his research that disadvantaged schools often have more, but less qualified, teachers.

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Humanities K-12 Civics Professional Development 110

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

We’ve been doing research with New York City Public Schools for the past 6-7 years. She said, “Let’s give them the data points to critically think and draw conclusions.” In most of education we think knowledge leads to difference in behavior,” she said. Related: Climate change: Are we ready?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Aruch outlines a broad group of mindsets and competencies that ideally are part of high-quality climate education: civic and political engagement; social and environmental justice; innovation and entrepreneurship; networks and communication — telling stories and building alliances; and systems thinking, understanding how all of this is connected.

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Civics High School Critical Thinking Social Studies 104

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

For instance, we could use the Civilization video games to learn and blog about political power and civics. I could utilize the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media software tools for historical research. We’d have a variety of Social Studies simulations and games available to us.

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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.

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Students of History

JANUARY 3, 2023

In a social studies context, this might involve students working in groups to research and present a report on a particular historical event or issue. 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.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

To give students insight into the work of historians, Czarnecki assigns research projects in all of the courses she teaches at Bishop Seabury Academy in Lawrence, Kansas. She also pursues her own research. Then she muses, “More graduate students should submit their research papers, because you never know.” Czarnecki says.

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Social Studies Research Archiving American History 98

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The increasing politicization of social studies was a concern shared by many educators, education leaders, researchers and advocates at last week’s annual NCSS conference in Nashville. The approach has received pushback from conservative politicians who want to see more “patriotic” social studies curriculums, experts at the conference said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

To fix this, we need to deepen our investments in civics and history instruction, bolstered by an emphasis on critical thinking skills. Only one-third of native-born Americans can correctly answer the basic civics questions required of naturalized individuals to achieve U.S. Following World War II, the U.S.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2014

We expanded the League of Innovative Schools , our national network of forward-thinking school districts, and partnered with middle schools to create innovative learning environments. “I think instances of personalized learning will become more and more present in classroom settings. ” Melissa Gedney. " Sara Schapiro.

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Education Civics Pedagogy Lesson Plan 112

Let's Cultivate Greatness

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Including the Electoral College in your civics and government class is essential. And since it’s a bit complicated, it’s a great topic to spend a few days on because there are so many ways to practice critical thinking and general social studies skills. Want these activities and more to bring into your Civics class?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

Lessons like these help students gain critical thinking skills and give them an opportunity to learn about workers’ rights and labor history, subjects that are often missing from classroom discussions, educators say. Working people standing together did that.”. CFT, which represents roughly 120,000 educators, is lobbying for $2.7

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Education Economics Civics History 85

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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

These kinds of head-scratching, politically ignorant actions lay bare the very reason that people need a quality liberal arts education.

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Diane Ravitch

MARCH 8, 2024

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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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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Civics Civic Engagement Geography Pedagogy 52

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. Nevertheless, the current push for college and career readiness is insufficient to develop a civic mentality.

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Civics Charter School Education Government 74

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2020

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. Spend some time on news literacy and Civic Online Reasoning.

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