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Girl Scouts against the world

The Hechinger Report

To solve its current problems, the organization is drawing on its original strengths: leadership and STEM. Next come outdoor adventures, entrepreneurship, civics and wellness, along with some art-focused badges. There’s a brand-new Digital Leadership badge. Eman El-Sheikh, University of West Florida.

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Switching sides in the teacher wars

The Hechinger Report

But in an era of bold, no-nonsense school leadership, the standards plan put Gist on the map as a rising star in education. She flips through pages of impeccable cursive handwriting extolling the importance of teaching, interspersed with magazine photos of students in 1970s-style plaid sweaters and bowl haircuts.

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Students take their future into their own hands on climate change activism

The Hechinger Report

That was a real civics lesson she will never forget. The decisions that affect the land that we live on are made behind closed doors,” Watford told Essence magazine. People thought of our fight to stop the incinerator cute after school hobby,” Watford told Time magazine in 2016. “It

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Can we teach our way out of political polarization?

The Hechinger Report

Author Andrea Gabor called the violence a “Sputnik moment for teaching civics.”. Other institutions, along with a lack of leadership, have played a role in the current crisis, he said. history and civics, and many leave school with big gaps in political knowledge. American students lack a shared foundation in U.S.

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