ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. In 2020, California adopted a State Seal of Civic Engagement that high school students can earn upon graduation.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Its easy to focus on just the President when teaching the Executive Branch, but its important also to stress the role of the four million other people who make up this branch of government. Here are some of my favorite lessons and activities for teaching the executive branch in my high school Civics and Government class.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

Yancy Sanes teaches a unit on the climate crisis at Fannie Lou Hamer High School in the Bronx – not climate change, but the climatecrisis. He is unequivocal that he wants his high school students to be climate activists. “I I need to take my students outside and have them actually do the work of protesting.”

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In 2020, California’s State Board of Education adopted criteria and guidance to award a State Seal of Civic Engagement to students who demonstrate excellence in civics education. There is no better way to integrate SEL and civic engagement for the next generation of learners. SEL programs are not reported either.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

eLearn.fyi is a database of more than 300 online resources, from a civics curriculum created by a former Supreme Court justice to engineering lessons for building a robotic arm. Other student entrepreneurs have applied their hard-earned wisdom to improving virtual school, too. Credit: eLearn.fyi.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 16, 2024

Once kids are in high school, there usually isn’t time or the need to spend a whole week solely doing relationship-building activities. I might tweak my “Welcome to Civics class” activities a little year to year, but here are my tried-and-true favorite ones to do to establish a great foundation. So definitely don’t do that.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

We’ll never forget last year, when survivors of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, became leaders instead of victims, taking their cause all the way to Washington, D.C., The public high school I attended — River Bluff High School in Lexington, South Carolina — has one answer.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Teaching the different forms of government seems easy enough – go over some definitions and provide examples, then quiz your students. But that’s not creating any real meaning for them, especially if your high school Civics students are somewhat familiar with them already. What are the Main Types of Government?

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This summer, the American Political Science Association partnered with Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) District’s Summer Rise Program to offer three high school students the opportunity to gain experience in political science knowledge production and higher education non-profits.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Laci Hargrove, 18, who fell short of the high school credits she needed to graduate, moved straight from high school to a HiSET-prep program that also provides her with needed social supports. When Laci Hargrove turned 16, she was a sophomore in high school with nowhere near the credits she needed for her grade level.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

AUGUST 24, 2023

It seems like that’s precisely what’s happened now that the Citizenship Test is a high school graduation requirement in many states. I’ve heard many Government and Civics teacher friends in states that do require it talk about it being “one more thing” and “such a joke.” Now over a dozen do.

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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. Later on, as I went into middle and high school and was wondering what I wanted to do in my career, I would think about teaching, and Ms.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Political cartoons are the perfect basis for so many civics activities and topics, regardless of ability level. Over the years of teaching high school Civics and Government, I’ve used them in countless ways with my students. Here are my go-to favorite civics activities I use with political cartoons.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2021

The good news is that bridge builders — including nonprofit civic groups, economic development agencies and businesses and educators — have shown in recent years how to bring the right parties together to make change. Workers have had to rapidly figure out what additional training and skills they need, and where to find them.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

A survey of over 20,000 students conducted May through June found that only 39 percent of students said they learned a lot every day while their school building was closed. Summer break gave school leaders time to reflect on the lessons of the spring and create more effective reopening plans for the fall. It blows my mind.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

history, civics and geography (with history scores much lower than in science) should disabuse us of that notion. These efforts are scattershot, however, and a great approach to providing specialized science knowledge rarely crosses over into something similar for history or government.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. There was nothing like this. Emmet Yepa Jr.,

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Student protesters from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida demand government action on firearms. Here’s something to think about when you hear people question whether student protests are appropriate: We seem to have forgotten as a nation why we created public schools. Not so well.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. Victoria was in my U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2019

Penida-Briceno, a senior with blue-tipped hair who hopes to become a biochemist, was one of two dozen teens at the high school in Flushing, Queens, who helped dream up the idea of building a greenhouse after learning that students could choose how to spend $2,000 of the school’s budget this year.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

This, though, is rapidly changing — we visited a high school in Helsinki that is as diverse as any American high school.) As we traveled through Finland, we met with top government officials, education professors, classroom teachers and elementary-school students. However, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

These include the Khan Academy, with its free online learning and AI-empowered tutoring ; Outschool , which lets students choose online discussion-based classes; and Remake Learning , which provides a model for connecting the learning that takes place in museums, after-school programs, camps and civic organizations in the Pittsburgh area.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Both of the towns in this Oregon school district are tiny. The district is made up of two schools: a high school and a K-8 school, where class sizes tend to be under 20 students. The two schools have a total enrollment of about 200 students combined. Playing it safe”. Precautions continue into fall 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2020

Americans who have earned at least a bachelor’s degree experience half the unemployment rate of those with high school diplomas alone. People with at least a bachelor’s degree contribute, on average, $21,000 annually in taxes, while those with a high school diploma alone contribute $5,000.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Thrailkill was a third-year teacher happily settled at Skyline High School in Mesa, AZ, when Lindblom phoned to ask her to apply for an opening at nearby Mountain View High. Not only was Mountain View the high school from which she’d graduated; Lindblom was a teacher she admired.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2017

But as more schools, districts, states and even the federal government begin to embrace the idea, personalized learning is coming into conflict with an older movement in American education: standards-based accountability. In the meantime, Brian Greenberg believes the best schools should be able to handle both.

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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

It must also include civics lessons about the role students can play, now and in the future, in influencing government policy related to climate adaptation and mitigation.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2022

For communities to truly flourish, we have to stop viewing neighborhood renewal efforts and school improvement projects as two completely separate realms. Instead, city and school governments should work together and leverage funding to foster greater school and community improvement.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2019

I’d dropped out of high school when my daughter was born but had gotten connected to LaGuardia’s Fatherhood Academy , which supports young fathers by helping them to finish high school and more. I planned to earn my high school equivalency and then get out. I was content working as a barista.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

At a time when other higher education institutions are closing or merging because of a decline in the supply of high school graduates, the Roux is among a small but largely unnoticed number of new colleges that are opening. Some are focusing on high-demand disciplines such as technology, health and alternative energy.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Below, I share how I select the cases we cover in my high school Civics and Government class and the poster project gallery walk we do to learn them in a way that matters. Then, see what various credible government and non-profit civics websites have listed as landmark cases.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

Students not only build cities, they create governments, infusing civics into the curriculum, too. Gehry Nelson wishes more schools and districts would do the same, saying, “There are no fancy materials required, no textbooks for students.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Related: More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit. universities, has been put on hold because of resistance from governments and institutions, the OECD’s director for education and skills said. Fifty-seven percent of college graduates failed a civic literacy exam. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Roosevelt Montás, who spoke no English when he arrived in New York City at age 12 from the Dominican Republic, leads Columbia University’s Freedom and Citizenship summer program for New York City high school students. The program relies on local high school guidance counselors to find participants, DeSmidt said.

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Civics U

MARCH 24, 2022

Nevertheless, a course in economics is not usually a requirement for high school graduation, nor for most college degrees. Another factor is an increase in the supply of money that results when the government prints more money. These things directly impact people’s lives.

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