The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

studied civics in the fall of 2016, they began by exploring a nearby park in Pontiac. The curriculum was recently the subject of an experiment involving 684 students to see if this approach actually teaches kids the reading and writing skills and the content they need to succeed in school. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The location students identified had to be strategically located for equitable access, accounting for the needs of community members most limited by transportation and low economic support. They offer an invitation to analyze how mathematics can be applied to promote civic engagement, advocacy, policy change and increased access to resources.

Cultures 137

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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. Teach not just basic skills, but also arts, crafts, music, civics, ethics, home economics and life skills. 6) Make homework efficient.

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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. Related: The next frontier for college programs for prisoners and ex-prisoners: Teaching them entrepreneurship. In Martin Luther King, Jr.’s

Civic Engagement 108

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

On the international Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) , American 15-year-olds rank toward the bottom of economically advanced nations in math achievement. Tens of thousands of teachers and parents flocked to her 2013 online course on how to teach math. But she didn’t address their legitimate research questions.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

Students are looking for something different from teachers and professors as they prepare to enter political and civic life, and that means educators need to change the way they support students when it comes to political engagement. This article is a partial transcript of an episode of the EdSurge Podcast.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The right’s blind faith insists that “if we have school choice in the form of charter schools and private school vouchers … competitive pressures will force the schools and teachers to teach better, and to churn out students who are excelling academically.”. Fordham Institute.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

But if there’s one job that can’t be taken over by artificial intelligence, it’s teaching. The best civics lesson requires you to leave the classroom. The panel I spoke on responded to the work of Andreas Schleicher, education director for the intergovernmental Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Humanities 110

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2019

I was one of a dozen classroom teachers who helped to develop and analyze Educators for Excellence’s Voices from the Classroom , a national survey of over 1,000 teachers, which found that economic concerns are top of mind for today’s teachers.

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Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 18, 2024

Having communication expectations and procedures in place was helpful when I was teaching. Add to cart Civics and American Government Course $ 125.00 If something was bothering my student, disciplinary actions, or positive behavior was happening, I would immediately inform the student’s parents.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2018

It has evolved its approach and dynamically responds to social, cultural and economic change over time. The methods of teaching a brilliant 18-year-old with intellectual passion but limited life and work experience can differ dramatically from educating adults, who bring to their studies rich lived experiences as reference points.

Social Justice 97

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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.

Political Science 57

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Barton teaches English full-time at Clarksdale High School. Indeed, a recent study in the 2017 Mississippi Economic Review found that districts with the worst teacher shortages have a weak local property tax base, a high percentage of black students and are disproportionately located in the Delta. MARKS, Miss. —

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ACRE

APRIL 15, 2024

Marcus Witcher and covers the 1932 election, the transition of power from the Hoover to FDR administration, and early economic policies designed to combat the Great Depression. The lesson could be used as a precursor to a unit on the New Deal in history classrooms or as a case study on economic policy impacts in a social science course.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Principal Nieraeth similarly said that the library, along with churches and other community civic organizations, “really would help step up and ask us, ‘What do you need?’”. My desk had never been cleaner in 20 years of teaching,” said social studies, history, and economics teacher Phoebe Skinner. Playing it safe”.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 23, 2024

The APSA-PSA International Partnerships Award, jointly supported by the Political Studies Association of the UK and APSA , honors political scientists engaged in collaborative and productive cross-national partnerships that make a significant contribution to the discipline in the areas of teaching, research, or civic engagement.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills and to make public their pledge to teach the truth. The Right has declared war on teaching the truth about structural racism and sexism and on LGBTQ+ youth. This is a national call. The group can be any size.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

You want to teach your fellow teachers the error of their ways, but you’ve seen the consequences of speaking out: termination, transfer and blackballing. 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.

Economics 81

Economics Geography Civics History 81

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

I taught in Rwanda, at its national university, in the mid-1980s and left the coun­try just as the economic situation began to spiral out of control. We too are divided along racial, ethnic and economic lines, into camps of globalists and isolationists. See Germany in the 1930s or Rwanda in the 1990s for historical proof of that.

Sociology 77

Sociology Civics Economics History 77

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.

Civics 52

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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.”. There’s sociological, economic, political issues in it. You can gain the same skills — critical thinking, civics, writing — through different content that feels more relevant.”. That’s not what we think.”.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 5, 2019

Wilson co-leads a summer institute called Learning Environments for Tomorrow (LEFT) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education — bringing together researchers, architects, designers, and educators to explore how learning spaces can support various goals, such as playfulness, collaboration, and civic engagement. Prioritize equity.

Pedagogy 83

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Yet “even as they teach their students to back up their claims with evidence, they don’t have much evidence to back up those claims.”. Fifty-seven percent of college graduates failed a civic literacy exam. But that project, which was to have included U.S. colleges and universities is inadequate and, in some cases, declining.”

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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.

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ACRE

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Primary Sources Library from the Bill of Rights Institute When teaching the Constitution, we want to offer students time in the classroom to analyze the text in-depth. Prohibition and its Unintended Consequences from the Arkansas Center for Research in Economics There are several key moments from U.S. Since its ratification, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

So McWilliams decided to try teaching. “My My mom had always encouraged me to teach,” she said. Mississippi is dealing with a dire teaching shortage. Usually half of the 30 or so recruits who attend are secretaries, teaching assistants and substitute teachers who would like to become classroom teachers.

Tutoring 95

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ACRE

JANUARY 17, 2023

Educators can use ASW educational materials to learn about and teach concepts central to Smith. Adam Smith’s Pin Factory & Division of Labor Pipe Cleaner Activity Adam Smith ’s Pin Factory is one of the most famous examples in the history of economics. Connections to Arkansas Learning Standards: Economics: EDM.1.E.1

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Prince finds one – about how teaching and learning systems might become oriented around a holistic understanding of human development – to be particularly accessible for current educators. Forecast 5.0 imagines possibilities for the future of education.

Civics 65

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

But, with an eye toward local accountability and sustainability, the program demanded that the bulk of the heavy lifting, both financial and strategic, be done through a collaboration among city and education officials, community organizations, civic groups and local philanthropy. The real Say Yes story will be told in 20 years.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

What: (Description of the Strategy) Possible Sentences is a pre-reading strategy that intertwines an opportunity to activate prior knowledge and pre-teach academic vocabulary. Possible Sentences Vocab Strategy Oct. Possible Sentences Vocab Strategy Oct. Understanding meanings provides support for comprehension of terms in context of the text.

Lesson Plan 52

Lesson Plan Professional Development Geography Civics 52

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. We peeled ourselves out of the plastic chairs and community members made a triumphant effort to teach us awkward, shy gringos how to dance.

Human Rights 59

Human Rights Anthropology Government Humanities 59

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

The right has declared war on teaching the truth about structural racism and sexism and on LGBTQ+ youth. Find an event near you and show up Go to a historic site and take a photo with a Teach Truth sign that you make or download. Event hosts can receive a Teach Truth pop-up installation box with banned books and other resources.

Teaching 52

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

It not only scuttled our trip, but both the pandemic and the economic fallout hit our majority minority students hard. The switch to virtual teaching was especially jarring for us because our course was built completely around our spring-break trip – with all the excitement that travel entails. Still, we were taking a risk.

Civic Engagement 145

Civic Engagement Social Justice Economics Civics 145

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.

Economics 81

Economics Civic Engagement High School Civics 81

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Sessions examined ways educators can navigate state laws that limit conversations on race and other difficult topics, as well as how they can develop the high quality materials and instruction those attending said was vital to preparing students for civic life.

Social Studies 141

Social Studies Teaching Civics Advocacy 141

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. Swan worked as a bank examiner for the FDIC before transitioning to teaching, which she pursued both domestically and internationally for about 10 years.

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