Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This summer, the American Political Science Association partnered with Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) District’s Summer Rise Program to offer three high school students the opportunity to gain experience in political science knowledge production and higher education non-profits.

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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.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

Lander teaches history and civics at this large public school in Massachusetts, and she says one of the most important strategies is to find ways to bring out her students’ stories in the classroom. They come from about 30 different countries, including the Republic of Congo and Cambodia.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In September, a teacher in the Hamshire-Fannett Independent School District, in Southeast Texas, was fired when district leaders learned that an eighth grade class was reading a graphic novel based on the diary of Anne Frank. It was an extreme example of the political strain public school teachers are under from parents and activists.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school. Mysa’s curriculum relies on Common Core, the same national standards as public schools, Fiske says. In contrast, many alternatives to public school are blossoming.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2020

The best civics lesson requires you to leave the classroom. I became interested in the 2020 Census after a teacher at my high school introduced me to a social entrepreneurship program called LearnServe. Through this program, I’ve been able to create a plan to address the lack of resources in underfunded school systems.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

While shows like Abbott Elementary – which I especially love as a graduate of Philly Public Schools – try to show teachers as real, dynamic people with complexities and contradictions, few educators get to narrate the true power of the relationships we’ve been able to cultivate with our students. John and Paula were in the same AP U.S.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Unlike mythical unicorns, though, some of these school privacy officers actually exist. For example: Baltimore County Public Schools created the position of director of innovation and digital safety, its closest equivalent, around 2016. But most didn’t have the resources or will to create the role.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Fifth grade Georgia teacher, Katie Rinderle, has been terminated for reading My Shadow Is Purple to her students , a book she purchased at her school’s Scholastic book fair. Rise Up and Write It By Nandini Ahuja Illustrated by Anoosha Syed A young girl learns about civic engagement as she advocates for a safe habitat for butterflies.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

She also recommended the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) at Ashland University as the ideal MA program for a working teacher interested in encouraging civil discussion of the perennial issues in American civic life. Lindblom asked Thrailkill to take on the class.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

Schools have to address student climate anxiety, provide them knowledge and skills, including the ability to recognize misinformation, and empower them to act, while schools also “clean up their act” by decarbonizing their physical infrastructure. We’ve been doing research with New York City Public Schools for the past 6-7 years.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2021

The good news is that bridge builders — including nonprofit civic groups, economic development agencies and businesses and educators — have shown in recent years how to bring the right parties together to make change.

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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2024

Jody O'Brien Assistant Superintendent of Student Services & Equity Marlborough Public Schools, Mass. This may contribute to challenges related to civic participation and community development. For many school leaders, the first step is determining why students are not attending school.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Here’s something to think about when you hear people question whether student protests are appropriate: We seem to have forgotten as a nation why we created public schools. No one is confused about why we have public fire departments or libraries: We all understand their mission for the public good. Not so much.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2022

There is more than just in-school discipline at stake, though. For example: After school hours, Baltimore City Public Schools has been sending police to respond to students typing keywords on their school-issued computers, collected by GoGuardian’s digital surveillance tool.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

The battle became personal, with some criticizing her $5,000-an-hour consulting and speaking fees at public schools while sending her own children to private school. Might we trade off a bit of short-term math achievement for a greater good of a numerate, civic society?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2022

In New Orleans, for example, YouthForce NOLA is part of a city-wide effort to help bridge the gap between school and the workforce, according to Cate Swinburn, president of the nonprofit organization. The organization partners with schools in the city to place students in paid internships with employers in “high-wage, high-demand” careers.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Related: What if public schools never reopen? But with so much in flux right now, perhaps we should take advantage of our national inflection point to question our assumptions and ask what schooling would look like if the goal of education were not to “improve outcomes” but to enhance individual flourishing. Fordham Institute.

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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. Was your own experience in school largely positive or largely negative? I've always been in public schools, and I’ve had ups and downs.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

The February 14 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, gave new life to student activism, prompting a level of civic engagement among students that many had never considered. Seventeen years in the classroom taught him the importance of expanding that work to students.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

One Thursday this fall, a middle schooler in Florida’s Brevard Public Schools received an in-school suspension. Related: They didn’t turn in their work for remote school. For teachers around the country, school discipline during the pandemic has been confounding. Their parents were threatened with courts and fines.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Students who have high-quality arts learning opportunities may be among tomorrow’s great artists, and they also may be among tomorrow’s health care professionals, engineers and civic leaders. Marinell Rousmaniere is the president and CEO of EdVestors , a school improvement organization in Boston.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

As a case in point, I recently interviewed Danny Cage, a high school student and organizer for the Sunrise Movement in Portland, Oregon. This spring, he and fellow student leaders helped get Portland Public Schools to adopt one of the most ambitious climate policies in the nation.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Census, we had taught them how to plumb demographic data and to understand why the census was key to both political apportionment and allocating federal funds for institutions like public schools. They fanned out across historically undercounted communities like Harlem and reported on the 2020 census. Still, we were taking a risk.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

School, district-based, or statewide book study Regular meetings to discuss chapters and create individual and/or collective action plans around each of the book’s five sections. They also encouraged and created opportunities for school wide participation in the Black Lives Matter at School Year of Purpose and Week of Action.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Eventually the school superintendent, who doubles as a special education teacher and a substitute, asked if he’d be interested in doing more; the schools have been short-staffed for years. million students go to public schools in rural areas , more than the combined total of the nation’s 85 largest school districts.

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4QM Teaching

MARCH 19, 2023

And as citizens of a democracy, we want our students to be able to grapple with history, politics, and social and civic questions actively and critically. The “Swiss Army Knife” of History Teaching One of our favorite compliments on the Four Question Method came from a fifth grade teacher in a Massachusetts public school.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2016

I get Sabato’s point when it comes to voters, but what happens when actual candidates for public office don’t show up? Numerous empirical studies have concluded there is a positive correlation between civic and social engagement (CSE). But these boards are a point of contention for those who oppose charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2018

But even back when every school taught civics and American history, very few students attained adult literacy. Others blame schools and teachers for “failing” our kids, but the data suggest otherwise. He is a former New York City public school teacher and a founding director of Teach For America.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Chancellor Antwan Wilson of DCPS during a visit at the Washington Metropolitan High School. Public Schools, agreed to leave his post last month after news broke that he had flouted his own school enrollment policy. Wilson and his wife felt that the performing arts school his eldest child attended wasn’t a good fit.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The newly formed Philadelphia Education Innovation Cluster is aiming to infuse the city’s namesake fraternal spirit into their regional education ecosystem, a network that includes community centers, art organizations, public television, Philadelphia Public Schools (representing 130,000 students and 300 schools), and more.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

For example, we grouped together “creating authentic learning opportunities,” “challenge-based or problem-based learning,” and “developing civic knowledge through hands-on community engagement” because they all use hands-on, collaborative activities that are based on real-world conditions.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2018

In large urban districts, like the Los Angeles Unified School District or Chicago Public Schools, poverty, violence and trauma can be barriers to learning for thousands of students. There’s no doubt about the importance of social and emotional competencies in college, civic, career and life success.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

A final section of the forecast points to existing schools and educational programs that offer glimpses of the future. The I Promise School , for example, a joint initiative of the LeBron James Family Foundation and the Akron Public Schools, offers wraparound services with whole-child development in mind.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2017

From the more than 7,000 employees that were terminated in total in New Orleans, the Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB) dismissed approximately 4,300 teachers, 71 percent of whom were black, 78 percent women. About half of the terminated teachers returned to Louisiana public schools by fall 2007.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2023

Many educators probably weren’t surprised by today’s announcement of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test results for civics and history. In past years, the scores for civics have been flat, which is hardly encouraging. The scores tell an all-too-familiar story.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2016

You can gain the same skills — critical thinking, civics, writing — through different content that feels more relevant.”. We’re a land grant public institution with a commitment to our state and our city, and that’s the talent we should be cultivating,” said Nancy Cantor, who has been chancellor at Rutgers-Newark for two years.

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