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. Maybe I could work in a museum or a library. history, European history, human geography, AP government.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2020

This means that students living in online “education deserts,” who already face significant barriers to success, are being locked out of the postsecondary education that is so important to so many individuals’ prospects for future prosperity and civic engagement. Related: How to reach students without internet access at home?

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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. So, you need to design a CBA? You have an idea, check.

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Civics for All of US

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum to learn how citizens and government officials used the tools of democracy to challenge racial discrimination in voting. Addressing Racial Discrimination in Voting During the Kennedy Administration Katie Munn Mon, 09/11/2023 - 12:38 Body Investigate primary source material from the John F.

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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. No one is confused about why we have public fire departments or libraries: We all understand their mission for the public good. Related: COLUMN: Marjory Stoneman Douglas students give legislators a civics lesson.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. For instance, we could use the Civilization video games to learn and blog about political power and civics.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

Stewart Lockett (right, grey shirt) leads a meeting of the student government executive team in late January. His team is the most diverse student government the university has ever had. He dug through the bottom drawer and pulled out a student government flyer from five years earlier. Casey Parks/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

But, because the federal government left reopening plans to the states, which passed the task on to districts, which in many cases left the details to individual principals , students across the country are experiencing vastly different schooling scenarios. Perry is busy. I’m hearing your concerns. All of you have to work Saturday nights.’

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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.” or only during stories about slavery and Jim Crow?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In Port Orford, Oregon, it’s a quick walk from the elementary and middle school building to the town library—the two buildings are right down the street from each other. In fact, the town library and school are linked by more than geography, since the school district’s two libraries became part of the Port Orford library system in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Erie County Community College, or EC3PA, has used federal pandemic funding to make tuition free and is offering courses and services virtually and in person at a vocational high school, branches of the county library system and an education center run by nuns.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2016

They also say it’s in the universities’ self-interest, coming as it does at a time when decaying surroundings and urban crime discourage applicants, cash-strapped local governments are pushing these nonprofit institutions to pay more for the services they get, and the public has a low opinion of college costs, management and value.

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Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

One student’s letter clearly showed their frustration with social distancing when they wrote, In conclusion, you should support Government restrictions due to the Coronavirus. I was able to locate Topeka’s “shut down” order through the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America. For a copy of my lesson, follow this link.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

A student walks past the Bender Library on the American University campus in Washington, D.C. 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. Higher Education.

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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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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 5, 2023

Founding Document Posters – Post poster-sized replicas of key founding documents related to your US History and Civics classes. Again, I point at them daily in my US History and Civics classes. I also have them for Civics or Sociology. You know it’s a key concept if it comes up throughout all your units.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

So Joffe created eLearn.fyi , a database of more than 300 online learning tools, including a civics curriculum founded by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and engineering lessons on how to build a robotic arm. “I realized that there was an opportunity sitting right in front of me,” she said. – CAYLA BAMBERGER.

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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. Lomax hoped the young men would bring back audio documents for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress.

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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. “I have some bright students, and a lot of them felt chagrined that they weren’t able to deduce this,” said Colglazier, who videotaped the episode last January.

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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. He’s active in student government and his fraternity. I have constituents who tell me, ‘You know, it’s the only thing I get from government. He decided to take out even more money to join them.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2017

Tabitha Lymburner, who provided her personal information to what she thought was a government-run college scholarship website. Although Mierzwinski suggested students talk to counselors or visit a library to find scholarships, others said lead generators can be helpful as long as students understand the tradeoffs. “It

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

The intercom and phones weren’t set up yet, so a teacher came to Patrie’s room to tell her everyone was gathering in the library. She is currently a library media specialist at South Saint Paul Public Schools, in Minnesota. Construction had pushed back the new school year at her Vermont high school. Credit: Marie Hydukovich.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

— Inside a high-ceilinged library at Northridge High School here, seniors are typing on 16-year-old laptops donated by a local Rotary Club. School leaders have solicited donations from local manufacturing plants, energy firms, even the federal government. Photo: Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 12, 2023

At Teaching American History, we know teachers are hungry for resources that help their students understand the nuances of American civic behavior. For secondary and post-secondary government and political science educators, we are proud to recommend our CDC volume, Religious Liberty: Core Court Cases.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

This new initiative has emerged from the institute’s mission to help young people become more informed about and engaged with local government and the issues affecting the community where they go to school. The work of local government directly affects the lives of those in their communities.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

Concurrently, civil rights activists in Mississippi participated in a series of “Wade-Ins” to integrate public beaches, “Read-Ins” to desegregate public libraries, and “Pray-Ins” at all-white churches. The interest of the country is awakened and … the government responds.” SNCC & Grassroots Organizing: Interpretive Booklet.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2022

In Kentucky, other students I spoke with described becoming activists long before the Roe leak: Minhal Nazeer, 16, said she wanted to protest and join civics organizations after taking a government and politics class. And now, it’s our bodies,” Nazeer told me. “It

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2021

Credit: Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images. Capitol last week, my instinctive response — before the despondency I felt at the desecration of American democracy, or the anger that would later have me shouting at my television set — was historical. I scrolled through my memory for comparisons. As a high school teacher of U.S.

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