Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 18, 2024

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Young citizens need civics education to understand their constitutionally guaranteed rights. The best civics teachers also help students learn the skills they need to protect their rights. They teach self-government as a cooperative activity. Civic engagement involves more than just showing up to vote. Peters agreed.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

. — FEBRUARY 13, 2024 De Gruyter and the American Political Science Association (APSA) are pleased to announce agreement on a cooperation partnership to publish two new book series: The De Gruyter-APSA Teaching Civic Engagement Series and The De Gruyter-APSA Political Science Professional Development Series.

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Political Science Civic Engagement Civics Social Science 53

ACRE

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

These essays outlined the division of government powers, methods for taxation, as well as foundations for the structure of Congress and the Courts. Prohibition and its Unintended Consequences from the Arkansas Center for Research in Economics There are several key moments from U.S. Government: PP.2.USG.2

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Categories Corporate Educator Spotlight English Language Arts Lesson Plans Press Professional Development Science Social Studies Studies Weekly Online Summer School Teacher Tips Thinking on Education Tutorials Uncategorized Well-Being Recent Posts Possible Sentences Vocab Strategy February 26, 2024 Lesson 4: How Does Our Government Work?

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ACRE

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Jeremy Horpedahl, UCA Economics Professor and Director of the Arkansas Center for Research in Economics, wrote a short explainer on the topic of interest rates for the Winter 2022 Issue of Arkansas Flavor by Arkansas Times. and Arkansans specifically, and discusses actions taken by government to attempt to stabilize the U.S.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Jigsaw Strategy Oct. February 26, 2024 Lesson 5: Who Can Run For Office February 26, 2024 Lesson 6: How Do We Choose Leaders? Grades K-3) February 26, 2024 The post Jigsaw Strategy first appeared on Studies Weekly.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2021

But overcoming the pandemic-driven economic crisis will require much more than good intentions and billions in new spending. An economic recession is now making this worse. In Montana, the state government has played a leading role in bringing together talent supply and demand, a model rare in the United States. They had to.

Civics 94

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2020

For people who have been involved with the justice system as defendants, prioritizing higher education is a necessary safeguard for social and economic success, both during and after incarceration. Communities and local governments can invest in programs that help people pursue higher education, including prison education.

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Civic Engagement Education Civics Economics 94

ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As education leaders continue to engage in conversations on transforming assessment and accountability for our nation, they must prioritize elevating voices excluded from past education change efforts, including voices of young learners, especially those from communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

studied civics in the fall of 2016, they began by exploring a nearby park in Pontiac. They created multicolored posters to explain what different departments of local government do, from sanitation to human resources. When a classroom of second graders in Waterford, Mich.,

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Project-Based Learning Historic Sites Civics Social Studies 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2019

The process, known as participatory budgeting, was meant to ignite student interest in democracy and civic engagement. Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled the proposal in his 2018 State of the City address, as part of a broader push for civics education. “We For weeks, the momentum favored the greenhouse project.

Civics 105

Civics Civic Engagement High School Economics 105

Doing Social Studies

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Nathan McAlister is the Humanities Program Manager – History, Government, and Social Studies with the Kansas State Department of Education. Nathan’s past students have created and led several civic and historical preservation projects. Clicking the Growth topic will take you to subjects with connections to primary sources.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

After the white flight transpired, an extended retreat from cities after the Second World War, migration back to urban areas over the last decade has been stimulating economic growth and technological innovation. Related: It’s time our educational institutions instilled some civic-minded values in students.

Economics 67

Economics Civics History Government 67

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

Government Accountability Office found the percentage of all schools with racial or socio-economic isolation grew from 9 percent to 16 percent from 2001 to 2014. It’s simply harder for individuals to seek redress against what is really a coalition between powerful neighborhood groups, civic leaders and school system heads.

Geography 78

Geography Economics Civics History 78

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2016

These aren’t undergraduate economics majors. It was scientists from Virginia Tech — not the state or federal governments — who discovered high levels of lead in the drinking water in Flint, Michigan, for instance. Andrew Seligsohn, president, Campus Compact. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

Civics 63

Civics Civic Engagement Museum Economics 63

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics. For instance, we could use the Civilization video games to learn and blog about political power and civics. government as well.

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Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Katherine Prince, senior director for strategic foresight at KnowledgeWorks, said these drivers can be alternately mind-boggling, overwhelming, scary or exciting.

Civics 52

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Instead of attending neighborhood schools with students of the same race and economic status, as most children do in Mississippi, Osborn went to school with an even mix of black and white classmates, some from the town’s wealthy subdivisions and others from Clinton’s poorer areas. They’re also extremely successful. I just went right on.”.

Junior High 74

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Also in 2006, ministers of education from Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development member nations agreed in Athens to develop a worldwide measure of learning called the Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes. Fifty-seven percent of college graduates failed a civic literacy exam.

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Civics Economics Leadership Government 102

The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

Say Yes Buffalo is understandably drawing interest from school districts and local governments around the country, anxious to see if its success can be replicated. Usually what causes disunity in the community are the class differences, the race differences, the socio-economic differences.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

We felt the pulse, the affective reality of what US funds support, teach, and hope for: communal destruction for economic profit. La Toma is an Afro-Colombian community that has long sat at the intersection of extractive industries—especially gold mining—and violence from right-wing paramilitaries, guerillas, and government forces.

Human Rights 59

Human Rights Anthropology Government Humanities 59

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

We wanted to see what the United States could learn from an education system that consistently receives top marks from UNICEF , the OECD and the World Economic Forum. As we traveled through Finland, we met with top government officials, education professors, classroom teachers and elementary-school students.

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Education Economics Civics Government 112

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Willms additionally noted that the library does not have a great ventilation system or easily-openable windows — and unlike school districts across the country, she was unable to a ccess a government gran t for ventilation updates. Librarians and district staff ultimately brought services from the library directly to students.

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Library Geography Civics Social Studies 106

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

– China’s state-controlled news broadcasters have long been considered somewhat robotic in their daily recitation of pro-government propaganda, and a pair of new presenters will do little to dispel that view. The best civics lesson requires you to leave the classroom. Photo: NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2019

That includes in almost all of the 36 member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development , or OECD, and in 39 of 47 countries of the UN Economic Commission for Europe , which extends to central and western Asia. It matters for employment stability and civic engagement. You’re more likely to live longer.

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Economics Civic Engagement Civics Government 70

ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

Additionally, social studies encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including history, geography, civics and economics, each with its own set of disciplinary practices. An inquiry-based education trains students for college, career and civic life — C3! The C3 Framework was released in 2013. Who can argue with inquiry?

Social Studies 112

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Czarnecki, a 2022 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government program, wrote the paper for a “Great Texts” course taught by Professor Stephen Tootle on John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Completing the MAHG program, she stepped down from her role as Dean so as to also teach courses in US history and government. “I

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

But they are often contentious, and the seven other Ivy League universities pay some property taxes on those buildings or voluntarily pay millions of dollars every year to their local governments and school districts. Civic project’ or ‘land grab’? which had property tax savings of $145 million this year.

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Civics U

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The previous article described the governments and economies of Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia. The countries differ from one another and from the United States in the amount of citizen participation and control allowed, and in the degree to which citizens control the government and the government controls the citizens.

Civics 40

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 9, 2023

The textbooks are for elementary and middle school social studies classes as well as civics, economics, U.S. The passage went on to say, “These societies may promote greater equality among people while still providing a fully functioning government-supervised economy.” history and world history courses.

Social Studies 40

Social Studies Social Justice K-12 Civics 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

They were juniors at Niles West High School, an economically diverse school serving approximately 2,500 students in the Chicago suburbs. million in state funds for a three-year pilot that would incorporate labor history in civics, economics and history classes, along with simulations like those run by the DePaul center.

Education 81

Education Economics Civics History 81

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

He had stellar grades in high school and is civic- minded, taking after his mother, who works as a community organizer in Thibodaux. These numbers are striking in a state where, overall, 45 percent of public school students are white, 43 percent are black and 70 percent are economically disadvantaged.

K-12 75

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

Their mission is to “transform the educational aspirations and economic realities” of township communities by preparing youth for first-generation higher education and social mobility. Founded in 2004, Launch is a network of eight low-fee private schools serving grades eight through twelve across four of South Africa’s nine provinces.

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Civics U

JANUARY 27, 2022

Preface Part I briefly summarized democracy and capitalism, socialism, and communism as major and currently familiar forms of government and economy, and the predominant systems in the United States, Russia, and China respectively. The country has a wealth of oil and gas reserves, and the government has control over major economic activities.

Civics 40

Civics Human Rights Government Humanities 40

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The United States spends $54 per student on those subjects, but only 5 cents per student on civics education. It has become fashionable to say we should prioritize civics education in schools. They cite the low number of Americans who know all three branches of government. These arguments often use statistics.

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Civics U

JANUARY 6, 2022

The various types of government and economic systems include forms of democracy, dictatorship, monarchy, socialism, communism, feudalism, theocracy, and capitalism. A society’s or a country’s specific political, economic, and social systems can be distinguished, but they remain interrelated. Historically the U.S.

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