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JUNE 8, 2020

Sadly, though, the reality is that millions of Americans — in rural and urban areas alike, and including many underrepresented minorities — lack the reliable broadband connections needed to access postsecondary and K-12 education in a nation that remains in partial lockdown. Schools get creative.

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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. Our governments need to be working in partnership with tech companies to put the Netflix of online learning into action,” she added. “I Credit: eLearn.fyi.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Some teacher educators have pushed back at me on this point, asserting that it is the job of the K-12 system to have provided this basic knowledge. history, civics and geography (with history scores much lower than in science) should disabuse us of that notion. They say college should not be a time for a lot of survey courses.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school. McCoy says he prizes them primarily for instilling moral and civic virtues in students. But we're just doing it in really, really different ways,” she adds.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

After all, walking out of school to vote or to support your friends’ constitutional right to do so is evidence they learned something in civics class, their grades notwithstanding. The best civics lesson requires you to leave the classroom appeared first on The Hechinger Report. In the U.S., Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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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. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Reconstruction , a technology company focused on developing and teaching K-12 supplemental curriculum, assembles artists, mathematicians and entrepreneurs to provide supplemental curricula to empower Black students in their communities.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

A recent Brookings Institution report notes that students regularly discuss civics issues in class but have few opportunities for community engagement and participation in our democracy. River Bluff is not unique in putting civics education and community service at the center of daily learning. Sign up for our newsletter.

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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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ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The current K-12 education system often minimizes identities and creates a homogeneous group of learners with identical needs and desires. Youth leadership groups such as student councils and student governments can serve in a decision-making capacity beyond basic school culture domains.

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Civics for All of US

MAY 12, 2023

Teaching the Bill of Rights for Educators Katie Munn Fri, 05/12/2023 - 08:50 Body A virtual professional development workshop for K–12 educators. 7:00 - 8:00pm EST The Federal Government's official copy of the joint resolution of Congress proposing the original Bill of Rights, engrossed on parchment, 9/25/1789.

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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Student protesters from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida demand government action on firearms. Related: COLUMN: Marjory Stoneman Douglas students give legislators a civics lesson. In a recent Annenberg Public Policy Center survey , three in four Americans could not name the three branches of government.

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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. Mental health is a big piece of the puzzle here,” she said of her school, which goes from pre-K to fourth grade. The real Say Yes story will be told in 20 years.

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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. It’s helpful to have some common language that says here’s what fifth grade is, and here’s what sixth grade is,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

Students not only build cities, they create governments, infusing civics into the curriculum, too. It’s a way of reimaging classroom practice, weaving creative thinking into the entire K-12 curriculum and connecting many subjects to cities built by students, with the help of educators she wishes were also thought of as artists.

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Teaching Civics

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

The Center for Civic Education offers a selection free lessons for K-12 students that teach about the Constitution: [link] One lesson, “ Constitution Day Scavenger Hunt with 60-Second Civics ” uses one minute audio programs that focus on the Framers of the Constitution. government works. Enough said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

As we traveled through Finland, we met with top government officials, education professors, classroom teachers and elementary-school students. We can start by piloting and implementing these 12 global education best practices, many of which are working extremely well for Finland: 1) Emphasize well-being. 6) Make homework efficient.

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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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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

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

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ACRE

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Rosemarie Fike, an Instructor of Economics at Texas Christian University and a Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute presented a lecture on Dr. Claudia Goldin and her accomplishments to university undergraduates and K-12 educators from around the state. Connections to Arkansas Learning Standards: Economics: E.3.ECON.3&4

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Bradshaw wishes more teachers would teach civics and history through Studies Weekly. Each child gets his or her own newspaper, which they love, and then I simply guide and facilitate the week’s topic using the Studies Weekly online component,” she said. Many key topics are overlooked or taught at a lower level, and I do not know why.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

So Belue started a new policy during the 1972-73 school year: students would have to elect one white student and one black student at large to student government, as well as to the homecoming court. You can usually trace it back to strong civic leadership,” McGraw said. A sign made out of butcher paper was left in his yard.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

In a number of states, including Louisiana, adult education — which ranges from basic literacy to vocational training to high-school equivalency testing — is lumped with technical and community colleges, separate from the K-12 system. A favorite civics teacher pulled her aside and told her that her schoolwork was academically strong.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

Students work on an assignment in a high school civics class. Leave this field empty if you're human: Among those standards is the one that governs who provides these classes. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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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.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

The Rethinking Schools editors add that for teachers, the challenge is to help young students to acquire the “critical dispositions and questioning” skills that “set the stage to encourage children to act on what they’ve learned — to have ‘civic courage,’ to act as if we live in a democracy.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2023

Many educators probably weren’t surprised by today’s announcement of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test results for civics and history. In past years, the scores for civics have been flat, which is hardly encouraging. At the end of 2022, Congress grew the federal allocation for civic education from $7.75

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

The 2016 election and the tumultuous start to Donald Trump’s presidency, which hits the 100-day mark next week, have presented civics teachers in red, blue and purple states alike with a double-edged sword. Johnson (on screen) overlooks the AP government class of Jo Boggess Phillips in Ripley, West Virginia Photo: Jo Boggess Phillips.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2024

As a parent and as a professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, I’ve seen firsthand how important civic knowledge is to young people — and how it is lacking. Nationwide assessments reveal that civic knowledge hasn’t improved since 1998, with only 23 percent of eighth graders performing at or above the “proficient” level.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2021

Brown crafted civics lessons about outbreak response for his eighth graders at Sarasota Military Academy Prep, a charter middle school. At one point, Brown’s students playing government officials fed false information to the “media” to convince the “public” to quarantine. Starting at 8 a.m.

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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. government. Photo: Carl Juste/TNS via ZUMA Wire.

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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. But they’re often unattainable for the state’s lowest-income students and students of color, who tend to be clustered in severely struggling K-12 schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The exercise was part of “Civic Online Reasoning,” a series of news-literacy lessons being developed by Stanford researchers and piloted by teachers at a few dozen schools. One early K-12 adopter of the Center’s news-literacy lessons was Janis Schachter, a social studies teacher at Northport High School on Long Island.

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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 political indoctrination of children through the K-12 public education system is a very real and prolific problem in this country,” tweeted Bryan Griffin, DeSantis’ press secretary. history and world history courses.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2019

Not the politics of education, where we talk about the laws that govern public schools, but politics and education, where we talk about how big, thorny political issues affect students and families. The best civics lesson requires you to leave the classroom. Divided times call for a different strategy. Related: Go vote.

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