The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Some universities and some K-12 school systems have developed media literacy courses and standards to help. At the K-12 level, states have begun incorporating media literacy into their standards and programs have begun cropping up aimed at training students to be better consumers of news.

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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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Teaching Civics K-12 Civic Engagement 134

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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Civic Engagement Civics K-12 Education 138

ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2023

high school students. The report included data on school connectedness, which the CDC defines as “the feeling among adolescents that people at their school care about them, their well-being, and success.” Civic behaviors and attitudes support the broader community. We recently published a review of our findings.

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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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Civics Digital Resources K-12 Lesson Plan 145

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 School systems are failing their students with outdated and inconsequential civics education that is only focused on facts and memorization. In short, they are demonstrating what real civic engagement looks like.

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Civics Civic Engagement Government High School 93

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2022

One idea that’s been gaining steam since last year is to break down barriers between high school, college and career to create a system that bridges all three. What would it look like to change the typical, or what we think of as the conventional high school experience and instead design something that was built for the modern economy?”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

On May 31, a school board meeting in Hernando County, Florida, made national news when more than 600 hundred people showed up and the meeting lasted until 2:30 a.m. The county had moved the meeting to the high school auditorium to accommodate a large crowd. Florida Gov.

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Civics K-12 Museum American History 145

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

The bill , which won bipartisan support from the state’s senate and assembly, would require the New Jersey Department of Education to develop learning standards across K-12 in media and information literacy. It’s about civic responsibility,” Polites said. “I Phil Murphy’s desk for a signature. .

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Teaching Civics K-12 Social Science 135

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Sessions examined ways educators can navigate state laws that limit conversations on race and other difficult topics, as well as how they can develop the high quality materials and instruction those attending said was vital to preparing students for civic life.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

Another troubling finding, from a survey conducted this spring by SimpsonScarborough: Forty-one percent of minority high-school seniors say it’s likely they won’t go to college at all in the fall or “it’s too soon to say,” compared to 24 percent of white high-school seniors.

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Civic Engagement K-12 Education Economics 141

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. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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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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K-12 Civics Social Studies Geography 123

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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

As a teacher and school-based leader, I always understood the necessity of advocating for students and helping them navigate life, and I tried to help other teachers change the trajectory of many lives. I taught my students to respect the power of civic engagement and social activism. This is dire. Eugene Pringle Jr.

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Civic Engagement Education Civics K-12 130

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

High School seniors (left to right) Hayley Striegel, Olivia Poplawski, Cheri Zheng-Fredericks and Julie Pignataro look for ways to verify information they’ve encountered on social media. High School social studies teacher. Can high-school kids check the authenticity of an alarming image posted on Facebook?

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K-12 Primary Sources Civics Social Studies 101

ED Surge

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Just last week, the director of the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, Jen Easterly, listed K-12 as one of three “ target rich, resource poor ” priority sectors for the agency, which is tasked with toughening the country’s cybersecurity infrastructure. But it’s something that lawmakers are only beginning to wake up to.

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K-12 Advocacy EdTech Civics 115

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

Every senior spends a month working outside of school at full-time internships throughout Chicago. Blanton, a high school senior, was interning for the firm’s information technology group. Linnea Garrett, Chicago Technology Academy school director. High Tech High wasn’t under threat of closure due to student performance.

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High School Project-Based Learning Psychology Charter School 80

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.

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Civics Civic Engagement K-12 Government 96

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

history and civics curriculum to be more inclusive and equitable? Related: STUDENT VOICE: Here’s why my high school and others must address anti-Asian racism. Related: As schools reopen, will Black and Asian families return? There are signs of progress. Luckily, things have changed since I was a student.

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American History History Teaching Primary Sources 112

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2021

Seated at folding tables and speaking through face masks, students at this STEM-focused charter high school tallied Covid-19 infection and death rates from one winter week — comparing national and statewide data with the virus’s toll at their school. This story also appeared in USA Today. We were really amazed by that.”

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Civics K-12 Middle School Lesson Plan 116

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

. There still aren’t enough students graduating from high school. Earlier this year, GradNation Acceleration grants from America’s Promise and AT&T were awarded to five programs in communities across the country that have successfully increased high school graduation rates while preparing students to succeed after graduation.

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High School Civics Economics Humanities 69

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.

Political Science 55

Political Science Civics Civic Engagement K-12 55

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The National Education Equity Lab offers online courses from professors at top universities to high schoolers in low-income communities. The Center for Black Educator Development achieves this via paid apprenticeships for Black high school and college students, while Latinos for Education provides fellowships for educators.

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Tutoring Education K-12 Museum 120

Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2022

BB2C fosters student, business, and civic relationships to inspire career choice through experience, entrepreneurship, and education. The Delaware Department of Education has added to their 17 early literacy micro-credentials that were launched in 2020 with 12 new micro-credentials to support early literacy throughout the state.*.

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Professional Development K-12 Project-Based Learning Civics 111

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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Civics High School Community Engagement Social Studies 107

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

Michael Gallin is a math teacher at Kappa International High School in the Bronx. NEW YORK — Michael Gallin, a 34-year-old math teacher at KAPPA International High School in the Bronx, was winding his way through the cluttered aisles of his algebra classroom listening for sighs of frustration. Now, I say: ‘I can do this.

Teaching 110

Teaching K-12 Civics Psychology 110

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. In the remote village of Nanwalek, Alaska, the K-12 school was planning to improve its slow, satellite-provided Internet connection.

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Education K-12 Middle School Professional Development 102

The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2020

When my District of Columbia public high school, The School Without Walls, closed in response to the coronavirus pandemic, all of my courses moved to an online platform. High school students like me might not be interested in the 2020 Census. The best civics lesson requires you to leave the classroom.

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Civics Civic Engagement Library High School 96

ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Robert Groven, director of the Minnesota Urban Debate League, has been coaching high school debate competitions for more than 30 years, and he’s noticed a marked shift in student behavior in the past decade or so. Deborah Appleman: I [used to be] a high school English teacher, but at Carleton I'm in the educational studies department.

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K-12 Pedagogy High School American History 117

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Rural students tend to do well in elementary school, but something changes as they get older. Although rural schools have made tremendous gains in high school graduation rates, these students are still less likely than their suburban and urban peers to successfully continue their education after high school.

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World History Civic Engagement High School Elementary School 141

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

If these things were true, how would what we ask of schools — and how we measure their success — change? If there was ever a time to ask big, heretical questions about American K-12 education, it’s when schooling has been thrown into chaos by a pandemic, and Americans’ faith in institutions, including schools, is at ebb tide.

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Education Charter School Social Justice K-12 123

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2018

This was the launch of my civics engagement. Related: Making America whole again via civics education. People around the country talk a lot about the importance of civics education, how youth are the future and how we can effect change to create a stable and improved country. About voting? Related: Go vote.

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Civic Engagement Civics Elementary School History 90

The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

Hutchinson Central Technical High School senior Karolina Espinosa will be attending Buffalo State in the fall on a Say Yes tuition scholarship. When 18-year-old Karolina Espinosa looks back to her freshman year at Buffalo’s Hutchinson Central Technical High School, graduation seemed like a long shot. “At BUFFALO, N.Y.

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K-12 Public School High School Economics 103

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Fewer than 20 percent of high school students knew that simply looking at one photo online is not enough research to gauge if something is really happening. And among middle school students, 80 percent did not understand that “sponsored content” on a news organization’s website is paid advertising.

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Civics Advocacy Elementary School Middle School 112

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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Civics Civic Engagement High School Economics 109

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2021

These are facts I observed and wrote about in my book “Remembering Freedom Summer,” but in 2021 many states have outlawed teaching such facts in their public schools and in trainings for educational staff. For decades I have been sharing my experiences with educational institutions and civic organizations.

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American History K-12 Civics History 99