The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

A new awareness campaign sponsored by the association, which represents Head Start providers, and a philanthropic group called the Civic Mapping Initiative, is hoping to ease that burden by encouraging local transit agencies to add bus stops closer to Head Start centers. and five miles away from public transportation.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 16, 2025

For at least 10,000 years, humans have worked the land to feed families, build communities, and form civilizations. Despite their size, archaeological evidence suggests relatively even distribution of house sizes and public investment in civic infrastructure. "We Human Nature , 29(3), 203–219. Harvard University Press.

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Teaching Civics

MAY 21, 2024

SUPER CIVICS SUMMER INSTITUTEFree! Join the elementary Super Civics Team to explore the new standards, discover resources, and consider ways to integrate childrens literature to support ELA and social studies standards. We will also investigate the Super Civics Toolbox to find lessons on voting and the 2024 Election.

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Teaching Civics

APRIL 17, 2024

SUPER CIVICS SUMMER INSTITUTE–Free! Join the elementary Super Civics Team to explore the new standards, discover resources and consider ways to integrate children’s literature to support ELA and social studies standards. We will also investigate the Super Civics Toolbox to find lessons on voting and the 2024 Election.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

Additionally, social studies encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including history, geography, civics and economics, each with its own set of disciplinary practices. An inquiry-based education trains students for college, career and civic life — C3! The foundation is so well established. Who can argue with inquiry?

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4QM Teaching

MAY 23, 2023

Is the Four Question Method applicable to civics education? As history / social studies people we’re often in contact with civic education advocates and organizations, and as a small organization interested in growing we’re sometimes advised to make a pitch for ourselves as civics educators. Gary and I get this question a lot.

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Living Geography

JULY 12, 2024

The technology is already ubiquitous, from running city governments and performing civic science to conserving open spaces and managing logistics—virtually every human endeavor. For more than 50 years, their vision has guided Esri’s GIS mapping and analytic technologies worldwide.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2018

But if this civic action is to be sustained and to extend to topics beyond gun violence and school safety, schools need to do more to nurture these students’ dispositions toward political participation so they can continue to engage in informed and effective ways. Related: COLUMN: Making America whole again via civics education.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 22, 2024

An Understanding of Human Nature Bryan Little of McPherson, Kansas noted that teaching government through primary documents helps students see our constitutional framework as a design based on an understanding of human nature. “I Does this author, in your view, actually understand typical human behavior?”

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 22, 2024

An Understanding of Human Nature Bryan Little of McPherson, Kansas noted that teaching government through primary documents helps students see our constitutional framework as a design based on an understanding of human nature. “I Does this author, in your view, actually understand typical human behavior?”

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4QM Teaching

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The Four Question Method wasn’t explicitly designed to teach civics, but we think it does a really good job of it. helps students to develop a critical civic disposition: listening to people who we expect to disagree with. The post 4QM & Civics: Question Two Helps Civic Discourse appeared first on 4QM Teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. These myths are harmful, in deBoer’s view, because they lead us to conflate academic ability and human worth. In the author’s telling, the Cult of Smart is “the notion that academic value is the only value, and intelligence the only true measure of human worth.

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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. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. When a classroom of second graders in Waterford, Mich.,

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Civics U

JULY 18, 2022

WHICH WAY PROGRESS There is some kind of cost, whether human or environmental, to any type of progress. Every development, every step and form of progress, whether building a building or a social movement, and any benefit it produces, requires the use of human capital, land, space, material resources, and/or time.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Anthropology has been quite slow to embrace Helen Schwartzman’s insight in The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities (1989) that meetings offer a vital window into collective human projects and organizations. Solitary confinement is torture, as defined by the United Nations and many of the world’s human rights organizations.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

Without social studies, we lose the civic mission of public schools,” said Stephanie Serriere, a former early-grade teacher who is now an associate professor of social studies education at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus. “But Related: It’s time our educational institutions instilled some civic-minded values in students.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Related: COLUMN: Marjory Stoneman Douglas students give legislators a civics lesson. The pressure of high-stakes testing has caused districts and schools to reduce or even eliminate coursework in civics, along with history, geography, science, arts, and fitness. How are we doing in that department? Not so well. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

For educators committed to the civic and political education that Baldwin described over 50 years ago, this fight requires the support of others. This group discusses both theoretical and practical approaches to civic and political education, asking: How do we respond to unfolding political events in our classrooms?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

These mental health challenges are not pathological, but considered to be normal human responses to a rapidly changing world. It must also include civics lessons about the role students can play, now and in the future, in influencing government policy related to climate adaptation and mitigation.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

The February 14 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, gave new life to student activism, prompting a level of civic engagement among students that many had never considered. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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Civics U

JUNE 2, 2022

Of course, the freedom of religion now also legally protects the freedom to believe in various non-Christian religions and religious traditions as well as the freedom “from” religion as found in atheism and secular humanism. The historic Christian worldview believes in absolute and revealed truth as a basis for understanding right and wrong.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2018

“Embracing new demographics, instead of running from them, will enable us to bridge the gaps between human capital, knowledge and societal needs.”. The modern American university needs once again to be at the center of civic, intellectual and professional life. We ignore this at our own risk. Depends who you ask.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In these, socially networked players are not only competing and generating creative content, but contributing to communities and participating in civic life. Because, as humans, we're ultimately rewarded by finding our place in the world, getting recognized by people we care about, making an authentic contribution.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2020

Then, recognizing that every learner brings a unique set of skills, talents, interests and needs to their education, we must give educators and students the tools to build unique learning pathways that develop the learner’s academic, human and technical skills. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Of our survey respondents, 90 percent agreed that humanity has the ability to mitigate climate change, 78 percent believed in the power of individual action and more than 80 percent were motivated to be part of the climate change solution. Amid the anxiety, however, are notable glimmers of hope.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 11, 2025

Immigrant integration and refugee resettlement policies and their implementation, including immigrant and refugee civic engagement, political incorporation, and citizen-making. Border and security studies as well as studies on intranational, regional, transnational, and international cooperation on the management and control of migration.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

She mentions Lincoln’s Fragment on the Constitution and the Union, which compares the Declaration’s principle of human equality to a painted “apple of gold” and the Constitution to a “frame of silver” that highlights and preserves equality. Now she sees herself preparing students for lives of civic engagement.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2018

Unlike other species, humans use language as a kind of operating system for our big brains. But even back when every school taught civics and American history, very few students attained adult literacy. Leave this field empty if you're human: Reading has always been a vital pleasure for a very small minority. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

The point, he said, is “the human values and the human principles that one learns in childhood. Teach not just basic skills, but also arts, crafts, music, civics, ethics, home economics and life skills. It doesn’t matter where you come from.”. 6) Make homework efficient. 7) Trust educators and children.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2020

Because those scores were then used to evaluate educators and decide which schools to shut down, testing has changed how math and reading are taught in classrooms and reduced or even eliminated topics that aren’t tested — from civics and science to art and music. This is controversial. What are you doing now?

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

. — FEBRUARY 13, 2024 De Gruyter and the American Political Science Association (APSA) are pleased to announce agreement on a cooperation partnership to publish two new book series: The De Gruyter-APSA Teaching Civic Engagement Series and The De Gruyter-APSA Political Science Professional Development Series.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 9, 2025

Immigrant integration and refugee resettlement policies and their implementation, including immigrant and refugee civic engagement, political incorporation, and citizen-making. Border and security studies as well as studies on intranational, regional, transnational, and international cooperation on the management and control of migration.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Again, sometimes that’s good; it’s a wonderful thing to dwell on the various wonders of what makes our humanity universal. In Boston, Neema Avashia, a civics teacher, showed us how she teaches stories of loss and difference in a unit about Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood, also known as “Black Wall Street.” What a great writing prompt.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2014

When engaged and structured in a democratic way, I believe education can provide the cognitive tools and content to see the world from others’ perspectives and overcome what William James called ‘a certain blindness in human beings.’ ” Robert Bajor. ” Jason Tomassini.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Why All of Us Could Use a Lesson in ‘Thinking 101’ Human brains are wired to think in ways that often lead to biased decisions or incorrect assumptions. A new book by a high school history and civics teacher collects innovative strategies, and argues that getting the issue right is crucial for building a strong democracy.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: “If you bring in students and show the 21 st -century skills that they are building as a result of this hands-on learning, then they’re a little bit more forgiving with the test scores because they realize that’s not what really matters,” said Pronovost. Weekly Update.

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Civics U

APRIL 21, 2022

Natural rights are rights that are considered to be universal human rights that are granted by nature or God, not granted by society or government and thus not to be revoked by society or government. They are an intrinsic part of human existence.

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