The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2020

The best civics lesson requires you to leave the classroom. LearnServe helps students create “social ventures,” which are projects that benefit our neighborhoods and schools by tackling issues like poverty, discrimination, climate change and civic engagement. Related: Making America whole again via civics education.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

It’s a natural fit for a school community whose mission includes cultivating and cherishing “an environment that supports the academic, social-emotional, creative and civic learning” of all students. 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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Civics for All of US

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Natalie Rocchio Tue, 10/15/2024 - 12:18 Body This Civics for All of US distance learning program is available for groups of 10 or more students free of charge. Each program will be led by one of our educators located at National Archives sites, the Center for Legislative Archives, and Presidential Libraries across the country.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2018

In Colleen Graves’ library, they make use of a much cheaper resource. Libraries sometimes provide free tech kits to check out, and if they don’t, the Institute of Museum and Library Services can provide a grant. It’s trash,” she said. But don’t call it that.”. Local businesses can also be partners.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

No one is confused about why we have public fire departments or libraries: We all understand their mission for the public good. Related: COLUMN: Marjory Stoneman Douglas students give legislators a civics lesson. But the problem is not just a lack of academic content about civics and history. Not so much. Not so well.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2018

A student walks past the Bender Library on the American University campus in Washington, D.C. Students work on an assignment in a high school civics class. The purpose of a K-12 education is to offer a solid foundation for these young people, yet we’re saying they should come to school for only half the time,” Huidekoper said.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

The group has a clear connection to pre-K-12 education. They were also in conversation with the local public library about a large Jefferson painting near its entrance. K–12 educators created a space to “generate and share ideas for promoting anti-racist curricula and practices in Chicago schools.”

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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.” or only during stories about slavery and Jim Crow?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

He had stellar grades in high school and is civic- minded, taking after his mother, who works as a community organizer in Thibodaux. But they’re often unattainable for the state’s lowest-income students and students of color, who tend to be clustered in severely struggling K-12 schools.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Rather, they say, talking to students about 9/11 and, more broadly, topics related to current events and issues that affect the local and global community just fits the district’s civic-oriented mindset. Sign up for our weekly newsletter. This year, the district has gone so far as to offer an elective course about 9/11.

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History Social Studies Museum Civics 75

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Library of Congress, U.S. data show just how little students across America have actually learned about the nation’s history, civics and geography. Forty years later, racial discrimination and violence are still far too common across America, due in part to our history- and civics-impoverished K-12 education landscape.

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Civics K-12 Geography Library 75

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

It was founded as a contract school (similar to a charter) with Chicago Public Schools, by civic-minded tech leaders appalled that their booming industry was struggling to find enough new talent despite being surrounded by neighborhoods where, quite often, roughly 50 percent of the young adults were unemployed.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2022

The group has mobilized people to push back against what it calls “the radical indoctrination and injection of political agendas in K-12 education.”. Nazeer said she dislikes seeing students left out of conversations in which politicians are dictating everything from wearing masks in school to what books are in libraries.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2017

Just as it’s easier for students to learn French by speaking it in France, we need civics, literature and science to be practiced in communities rocked by nonsensical violence. Quality teachers, programs and initiatives must go where beef is being cooked: outside the classroom.

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Charter School Primary Sources Education Civics 97

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

Or march to a local civic building. In Pasadena, Maryland, organizers invited people to a banned books “photo booth” at a local library. For your event, school, library, office: print this poster. A teacher was the MC, the memorial director (who is also a SNCC veteran) spoke, and then teachers read their pledges.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

Host an information table at a public site (such as a library, bookstore, or farmers market) or organize a gathering at a historic site. Host an information table at a public site (like a library, bookstore, museum, festival, or farmers market) or organize a gathering at a historic site. Or march to a local civic building.

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Teaching Historic Sites Museum Archiving 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

— Inside a high-ceilinged library at Northridge High School here, seniors are typing on 16-year-old laptops donated by a local Rotary Club. We’re doing everything we can,” says Mr. Norton, as the seniors in the library close their balky laptops and head to class. Photo: Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2018

“[T]he fact that this school opened only because of the good graces of a very wealthy, civic-minded athlete underscores the continuing problem with education funding in this country,” wrote education writer Valerie Strauss in her blog for the Washington Post. Researchers can help practitioners use data to identify problems and trends.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The number of book bans in schools and libraries nearly tripled during the 2023-24 school year to more than 10,000, across red and blue states, according to a recent PEN America report. To accomplish this aim, more pre-K-12 educators should participate in local school board meetings and run for open school board seats.

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Diane Ravitch

JANUARY 30, 2025

The order is titled “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling.” Trump signed an Executive Order threatening to cut off federal funding from schools that “indoctrinate” students on issues related to race and gender. ” P.L. 103-33, General Education Provisions Act, Section 432.

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