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Forget civics class: Students want to make a difference in real life

The Hechinger Report

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Related: Making America whole again via civics education.

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One state is poised to teach media literacy starting in kindergarten 

The Hechinger Report

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. Media literacy is often defined as the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create and communicate information or media.

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Call for Applications: 2025 APSA Institute for Civically Engaged Research (ICER) | Deadline: April 20, 2025

Political Science Now

Royce Hall on the campus of UCLA – Getty Images APSAs Institute for Civically Engaged Research (ICER) is a four-day, residential institute that provides political scientists with training to conduct ethical and rigorous civically engaged research. What is Civically Engaged Research? Applications are due by April 20, 2025.

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To Address Climate Anxiety, Consider How Students Get Their News on the Issue

ED Surge

At Project Information Literacy (PIL), the nonprofit independent research institute I lead, a group of library and information science and new media researchers — including myself — conduct national research about the information seeking behavior of college students and recent graduates.

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De Gruyter and American Political Science Association (APSA) Sign Partnership Agreement

Political Science Now

. — 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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COLUMN: Want teachers to teach climate change? You’ve got to train them

The Hechinger Report

Yet only 21 percent of teachers felt “very informed” on the topic and only 44 percent said they had the right resources to teach it most of the time or always. The sessions received funding through a $25 million National Science Foundation grant to Columbia University. Social science does not support that.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We’d have a variety of Social Studies simulations and games available to us. We could find history games at Playing History or Flight to Freedom.