Sapiens

OCTOBER 17, 2024

I’m in a conference room in a Civil War museum in Kenosha, Wisconsin, attending a keynote panel about preventing violence in the lead-up to the U.S. Urban Rural Action’s nonpartisan civic participation programs bring together people across lines of difference to prevent targeted violence. the moderator asks. election in November.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

These include the Khan Academy, with its free online learning and AI-empowered tutoring ; Outschool , which lets students choose online discussion-based classes; and Remake Learning , which provides a model for connecting the learning that takes place in museums, after-school programs, camps and civic organizations in the Pittsburgh area.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. We’d examine historical images of Native American life from the Museum of Photographic Arts, other historical photos from the U.K.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2018

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. Graves had Tweeted to the creator of a tech kit her kids were using, Makey Makey; he and his team “visited” her students via Skype. Local businesses can also be partners.

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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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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Image of New York State Archives and Museum in Albany, New York Making connections with cultural centers offers educators a measure of expertise outside their own content knowledge and pedagogical skill. the New York State Archives and Museum , and the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site ) is essential to my instructional practice.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

They also talked to APSA Educate about their passion for civic education, social justice, scholarly analysis, and interest in studying political science at the undergraduate level. Read her interview discussing her experience with civic education and civic engagement at the high school level here.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

Frank Gehry, who turned 94 on Tuesday, designed some of the most famous buildings in the world, including the Walt Disney Concert Hall and The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Students not only build cities, they create governments, infusing civics into the curriculum, too.

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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. Last school year, the district piloted a new set of lessons created by the Newseum , a museum in Washington, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Carthage students visited the local Civil War museum to connect theory with history, while Columbia asks participants to spend their senior year of high school working on a civic leadership project. Daye and classmate Iaisha Johnson, 16, used a break during the two-and-a-half-hour class to continue discussing Hobbes.

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Students of History

JANUARY 3, 2023

For example, you could take your students on a field trip to a local museum or historic site, or have them participate in a role-playing activity to learn about a particular historical event. This approach allows students to learn through hands-on experiences like field trips, service projects, and simulations.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Visiting Lecturers and Session Leaders Louise Bernard is the director of the Museum of the Obama Presidential Center. Bernard will discuss exhibitions and memorials about slavery, emancipation, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow. Bogart is professor emeritus of art history and visual culture at Stony Brook University.

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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. David Hume Kennerly shooting President Gerald R.

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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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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

It could be identified by a historic marker, statue, archive, burial ground, or museum. Or march to a local civic building. Area Educators for Social Justice has secured the following co-sponsors for this year, in addition to the co-host, the African American Civil War Museum and Memorial. See photos and stories about the D.C.

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Diane Ravitch

MARCH 11, 2025

John Thompson, retired teacher and historian in Oklahoma, reviews a book about how to teach civics in this era. Cormack explains that, Nationwide assessments reveal that civic knowledge hasnt improved since 1998, and Scores on Advanced Placement government tests are consistently among the lowest across all AP offerings. And guess what?

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

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. It could be identified by a historic marker, statue, archive, burial ground, or museum. Or march to a local civic building. The group can be any size. Select your activity.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2016

To commemorate its 30th anniversary, Campus Compact has asked its members to develop “civic action plans” by March reaffirming their commitment to what it calls the public purposes of higher education. Nearly 450 have signed on. Widener’s is an approach that appears to be spreading.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2024

What do you think of when you hear the word “civics”? For most adults, civics likely conjures distant memories of a high school course in which they memorized the three branches of government and other constitutional trivia. Unfortunately, that experience of civics hasn’t changed much.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

But as Columbia has expanded its footprint, it has also become more of a drain on the city budget because of a state law more than 200 years old that allows universities, museums and other nonprofits to pay almost no property taxes. Civic project’ or ‘land grab’? They have a very powerful board, they talk to the mayor,” she said. “I

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Anthropology News

APRIL 22, 2024

Young Cheol Hong, an environmental and civic activist, told me that it was likely through the post-1948 state logic “that any land that is not private property will become state-owned. There are 87 such “ghost towns” in Jeju Island that were destroyed or abandoned during the 4.3 I believe this is how this land became state property, after 4.3

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

His village was an expensive 12-hour bus ride from the Nairobi National Museum , where most of Kenyas fossils are housed, studied, and displayed. RIPO members and excavators Mackey Otwal (lower left) and Cliff Ocheing of the National Museums of Kenya uncover and document animal bones at Nyang Rise. Next come the questions.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

Volunteers who came to Mississippi after the initial June wave often assisted the ongoing civic and practical education taking place in “Freedom Schools.” Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. Summer Project workers lived and worked in rented or donated spaces that became known as “ Freedom Houses. History this Week. The History Channel.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

Author Andrea Gabor called the violence a “Sputnik moment for teaching civics.”. history and civics, and many leave school with big gaps in political knowledge. Trump showed up for the opening day of the new civil rights museum; one supporter looks at a list of those who were lynched. What you learn about U.S.

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