Civics for All of US

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness Natalie Rocchio Tue, 10/15/2024 - 12:39 Body This Civics for All of US distance learning program is available for groups of 10 or more students free of charge. Please contact civics@nara.gov. Programs are also offered as regularly scheduled interactive webinars.

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Civics for All of US

JANUARY 11, 2024

Teaching Presidential Elections with the National Archives Katie Munn Thu, 01/11/2024 - 16:02 Body Join education specialists from several Presidential Libraries and Museums for this professional development program for educators on teaching elections with the records of the National Archives.

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Civics U

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Providing highways, health care, education, social security, unemployment compensation, safe and clean water and air, dams and reservoirs, police protection and court systems, election systems, libraries and public parks is expensive whether done by federal, state, or local government, and requires taxing people and business entities to obtain the (..)

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Originally designed as an academic conference to share research, the event brought together Florida K-12 and college teachers and students, national journalists and professionals from libraries and museums whose work focuses on history and civics. Florida Gov.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Most students in the California State University, Chico library were silently poring over books or computers on a recent afternoon, but one group was tucked into a corner peppering university president Stephen Perez with questions. CHICO, Calif. This story also appeared in Los Angeles Times What’s the world’s smallest mountain range?

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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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ACRE

APRIL 15, 2024

These units can be embedded into existing history, civics, and government units to incorporate economic topics or used in economics classes to present historical case studies of economics in action. This lesson was designed to continue the topics presented in Dr. Witcher’s economic history lessons on The Great Depression. Franklin D.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

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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Political Science Now

JULY 24, 2024

Shogan is deeply committed to civic education and public engagement, and has made it a priority to expand the reach of the National Archives to a wider audience. Senate and as a senior executive at the Library of Congress. Most recently, she was Senior Vice President and Director of the David M. She also worked in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2020

This means that students living in online “education deserts,” who already face significant barriers to success, are being locked out of the postsecondary education that is so important to so many individuals’ prospects for future prosperity and civic engagement. Related: A school district is building a DIY broadband network.

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ED Surge

MARCH 30, 2023

Together, we explored how to engage in civic life with love and wisdom. We didn’t have to go further than the daily news to hear of school board meetings, classrooms, grocery stores and libraries being impacted by political polarization in our country. A trip to a bookstore or library as a younger person was always a delight.

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ACRE

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Primary Sources Library from the Bill of Rights Institute When teaching the Constitution, we want to offer students time in the classroom to analyze the text in-depth. The Federalist Papers (Accessed through the Library of Congress) Video from Mineola Creative Content on YouTube. 3 Analyze the rationale for the structure of the U.S.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 1, 2024

Woodson Institute, the Social Science Research Council, and the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University. He has been awarded fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the University of Virginia’s Carter G.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 5, 2023

Founding Document Posters – Post poster-sized replicas of key founding documents related to your US History and Civics classes. Again, I point at them daily in my US History and Civics classes. I also have them for Civics or Sociology. You know it’s a key concept if it comes up throughout all your units.

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Doing Social Studies

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Nathan’s past students have created and led several civic and historical preservation projects. Nathan has also been named a Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History , Master Teacher Fellow, Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes , Fellow, and a George Washington Library , Lifeguard Teacher Fellow. So, you need to design a CBA?

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

They were also in conversation with the local public library about a large Jefferson painting near its entrance. They also examined their rubric for quality diverse children’s picture books in order to curate their classroom libraries. They organized to change the name of an elementary school where three study group members work.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2020

Having a college degree is associated with reduced unemployment, a healthier lifestyle, lower health care costs and higher levels of civic engagement. But the benefits of a higher education are not simply economic. These trends put all of that at risk, and could take us a generation to work our way out of unless we act now.

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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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C3 Teachers

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

We are partnering with the Spartanburg County Historical Association and Spartanburg County Public Library to highlight ways such groups can support teachers. We are using workshop publicity to amplify the Beaumont Mill Village Neighborhood Association’s communication and outreach.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Maybe I could work in a museum or a library. A lot of people suggested I go into teaching.

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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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Civics for All of US

JANUARY 11, 2023

Executive Orders and Civil Rights Katie Munn Wed, 01/11/2023 - 14:47 Body During this online workshop with the Truman Presidential Library and Eisenhower Presidential Library, teachers will examine primary sources to discover how and why presidents have issued executive orders to advance civil rights.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

They’d just cleaned the shelves at the Santa Clara Pueblo library, grabbing their favorite titles in Tewa, one of the languages spoken by the Pueblo people in New Mexico. The third graders juggled the books as they traversed a courtyard ringed by adobe houses-turned-classrooms, with teacher Paul Chavarria trailing them.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. For instance, we could use the Civilization video games to learn and blog about political power and civics.

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Civics for All of US

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum to learn how citizens and government officials used the tools of democracy to challenge racial discrimination in voting. Addressing Racial Discrimination in Voting During the Kennedy Administration Katie Munn Mon, 09/11/2023 - 12:38 Body Investigate primary source material from the John F.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

She was director of exhibitions at the New York Public Library, and previously a senior content developer and interpretive planner in the New York office of the museum design firm Ralph Appelbaum Associates, where she worked on the development of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, along with other international projects.

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Civics for All of US

MAY 4, 2023

Ford Presidential Library and Museum for this online teacher workshop and discover resources for teaching with presidential photographs. Join the Gerald R. This workshop is suitable for middle and high school educators.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

From classes on Microsoft Office basics to services on civic engagement and employment, libraries and other social service programs play a pivotal role in reducing the Digital Learning Gap. This is especially important for adult learners who are not starting from scratch, but have a wealth of knowledge and experiences to build on.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Erie County Community College, or EC3PA, has used federal pandemic funding to make tuition free and is offering courses and services virtually and in person at a vocational high school, branches of the county library system and an education center run by nuns.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Related: A padlocked drinking fountain, tree stump seats and a caution-taped library: See how the coronavirus has transformed schools. At the beginning of the school year, she said, students in her Civics class were told to watch the news and comment on what they learned using Google Classroom.

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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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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. After studying the artwork of pop artist Andy Warhol, fifth and sixth grade students made artwork inspired by his creations. Safari Books.

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Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

I was able to locate Topeka’s “shut down” order through the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America. Many states and municipalities issued shut down orders in response to the Spanish Influenza in 1918.

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