Let's Cultivate Greatness

OCTOBER 13, 2023

I can’t imagine teaching civics and government without political cartoons—they are essential to the subject. This analysis strategy works well for bell ringers to cover current political news and as part of the main lesson to teach civics concepts. Then, download your FREE lesson kit to get started.

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Political Science Now

JUNE 5, 2024

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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. Brown had first contacted Sabeti a couple years earlier, after reading her Time magazine profile to his science-loving daughter, then 6 years old. “We Starting at 8 a.m.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

That was a real civics lesson she will never forget. The decisions that affect the land that we live on are made behind closed doors,” Watford told Essence magazine. People thought of our fight to stop the incinerator cute after school hobby,” Watford told Time magazine in 2016. “It

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

This directive would have affected about 75,000 people found mentally incapable of managing their financial affairs, according to an analysis by Fortune magazine. It’s time to give legislators the civics lesson they apparently never received. Yet the president made no mention of guns in his initial response to the shooting. “If

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

Author Andrea Gabor called the violence a “Sputnik moment for teaching civics.”. history and civics, and many leave school with big gaps in political knowledge. “Each person knocking down those doors once sat in a classroom,” wrote sixth grade teacher Christie Nold in a Tweet that prompted hundreds of responses.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

She flips through pages of impeccable cursive handwriting extolling the importance of teaching, interspersed with magazine photos of students in 1970s-style plaid sweaters and bowl haircuts. Four union members running for state government won their primaries last year.

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