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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

We are two American public-school dads who just returned from a fact-finding trip through Finland. Singapore has launched a series of Finnish-style school reforms. As we traveled through Finland, we met with top government officials, education professors, classroom teachers and elementary-school students.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

While shows like Abbott Elementary – which I especially love as a graduate of Philly Public Schools – try to show teachers as real, dynamic people with complexities and contradictions, few educators get to narrate the true power of the relationships we’ve been able to cultivate with our students. Victoria was in my U.S. History class.

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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. I've always been in public schools, and I’ve had ups and downs. history, European history, human geography, AP 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.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

She also recommended the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) at Ashland University as the ideal MA program for a working teacher interested in encouraging civil discussion of the perennial issues in American civic life. With the help of veteran teachers like Lindblom, Thrailkill is well positioned for the task.

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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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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

JULY 17, 2017

As an in-school family support specialist, Stubbe serves as a liaison between students, families and a number of health, legal and academic support services provided by local community organizations. The Say Yes promise of universal free college tuition to all Buffalo public school graduates has grabbed public attention.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

While dozens of colleges and universities use a “great books” curriculum, only a handful make it available to local high school students. How are the masses best governed? Students from underfunded public schools tend to have particular problems, she said. “We Both are modeled closely on Columbia’s program.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The newly formed Philadelphia Education Innovation Cluster is aiming to infuse the city’s namesake fraternal spirit into their regional education ecosystem, a network that includes community centers, art organizations, public television, Philadelphia Public Schools (representing 130,000 students and 300 schools), and more.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

(The overwhelming majority of these schools, which education experts have defined as “intensely segregated,” received the lowest three ratings on the state’s A-F rating scale, based on factors like student test scores and graduation rates.). Related: In Mississippi schools, access to technology lacking, uneven. I just went right on.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

A final section of the forecast points to existing schools and educational programs that offer glimpses of the future. The I Promise School , for example, a joint initiative of the LeBron James Family Foundation and the Akron Public Schools, offers wraparound services with whole-child development in mind.

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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

MARCH 5, 2018

But they never would tell me how to go to school when I was going through something.”. A favorite civics teacher pulled her aside and told her that her schoolwork was academically strong. “If Differing governance between K-12 and adult education systems also make it difficult to replicate models across state lines.

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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. The scores tell an all-too-familiar story.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 27, 2024

Jahana Hayes of Connecticut, a former high school history and government teacher. The step from public teacher to public office holder is, for many, intuitive, says Kelly Siegel-Stechler, a senior researcher at Tufts University’s Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement.

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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

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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Civics U

AUGUST 8, 2022

The terms federal and federalism can refer to the system of government that divides power between the central (national) government and the states, or they can refer to the central government itself in this system. The first Constitutional convention was called to address concerns about the weak national government.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

She was still feeling wounded the next morning, as she stood by her sister Taravia’s black Honda Civic. I left behind the ‘trying-to-fit-in’ in middle school,” she said. “I But Satoriya never felt she got what she needed at the school. From the phone in her hand, a voice told the class about the upcoming car parade.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

August 15, 2018 — The first day of school at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. School systems are failing their students with outdated and inconsequential civics education that is only focused on facts and memorization. government. What should schools do?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

But they are often contentious, and the seven other Ivy League universities pay some property taxes on those buildings or voluntarily pay millions of dollars every year to their local governments and school districts. Civic project’ or ‘land grab’? which had property tax savings of $145 million this year.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Both he and his mother loved to practice their photography skills among the long-slung red-brick buildings clustered around the school’s tidy quad. Woods thought about going away to college, but he believed attending a local public school would save his family money. He’s active in student government and his fraternity.

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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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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In recent years, a number of states have passed civics testing mandates to pressure students to become more civically active. And how useful is civic education for those who chose to get involved? One idea that’s taken root is forcing students to take a civics test as a requirement for high school graduation.

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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. Griffin highlighted a passage from a middle school textbook that described a socialist economy as one that “keeps things nice and even and without unnecessary waste.” history and world history courses.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

Caroline Patrie is a high school science teacher in Maine’s Portland Public Schools; her first day as a teacher was September 11, 2001. Construction had pushed back the new school year at her Vermont high school. She is currently a library media specialist at South Saint Paul Public Schools, in Minnesota.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

secretaries of Education and funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is to “transform teaching of history and civics” in ways that (they hope) will diminish political polarization in this country. Indeed, the local Civic Learning Plans its supporters propose would just further fragment the history our students learn.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

million in state funds for a three-year pilot that would incorporate labor history in civics, economics and history classes, along with simulations like those run by the DePaul center. history, first in Portland, Oregon, and later at the Harvest Collegiate High School, a small public school in New York City.

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Education Economics Civics History 84

Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

Engaging Citizenship introduces foundational concepts in political science through the lens of citizenship, democracy, and civic engagement, highlighting the relevance of the discipline to students’ lives and encouraging them to become engaged and empowered citizens. McHugh, Merrimack College (Discussant) Richard M.

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Diane Ravitch

MARCH 24, 2025

She has worked as an attorney, journalist, and ombudsperson and is the parent to two children who graduated from the San Francisco public schools She posts on Substack, where this appeared. Discuss money for schools. Does their public school need more or less money? Can voting change public policy?

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JANUARY 3, 2025

We call it Civics, not Government, class because its purpose is to instill a sense of citizen duty and participation, not just a memorization of concepts and amendments. Here are my nine favorite Civics PBL project ideas: 1. Yet, in reality, how much of our class time is dedicated to allowing students to participate ?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Related: LISTEN: In this Kentucky town, refugees can choose a separate high school. The answer starts in the classroom, where civics education often fails to inspire and engage students. Far too many schools preach, rather than practice, democratic ideals. We need to learn civics from the ground up. Where did we go wrong?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

million people live in places where state officials took over entire districts or individual schools in the past six years, according to News21 data collected from state government agencies. They say their concerns have fallen on the deaf ears of the state, which removed the city’s school board more than a year ago. More than 5.6

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

While we rubbernecked at the “zero tolerance” immigration policies that have undoubtedly caused trauma to children separated from their families, last week, the White House released a 132-page proposal to restructure the federal government. Government bureaucracies that grow over time can be anathema to innovation and efficiency.

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