ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

And she’s been exploring innovative teaching strategies to help best reach her diverse students. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

August 15, 2018 — The first day of school at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. School systems are failing their students with outdated and inconsequential civics education that is only focused on facts and memorization. In short, they are demonstrating what real civic engagement looks like.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 14, 2025

The Impact: Student and Teacher Growth By embedding IDM into our districts Social Studies framework, we cultivated a culture of inquiry that benefited both students and teachers: – Students became active participants in their learning, developing skills in critical thinking, analysis, and civic engagement.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

history and civics curriculum to be more inclusive and equitable? As an Asian American, my lived experience and this research make me firmly believe that we must do a better job of teaching Asian American history and culture in the U.S. — We must do a better job of teaching Asian American history and culture in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

To fix this, we need to deepen our investments in civics and history instruction, bolstered by an emphasis on critical thinking skills. Only one-third of native-born Americans can correctly answer the basic civics questions required of naturalized individuals to achieve U.S. We are not setting our children up for success.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I really did not expect to make it home,” she said during a recent conference on teaching difficult topics in the current partisan political environment, particularly in Florida. Before she left her house that evening, she printed out her will and put it on the table, along with a letter to her family. “I Florida Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Related: LISTEN: In this Kentucky town, refugees can choose a separate high school. The answer starts in the classroom, where civics education often fails to inspire and engage students. Far too many schools preach, rather than practice, democratic ideals. We need to learn civics from the ground up. Where did we go wrong?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2019

What didn’t come up at “ Public Education Forum 2020: Equity and Opportunity for All ” is that a part of any educational equity platform should be eliminating the politics that give K-12 public-school parents who know how to work the system preferred access to good teachers. a parent’s) political support.

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Teaching Civics

MAY 20, 2024

Minnesota Civics Test Update: In 2023, the Minnesota Legislature repealed the civics test requirement. Beginning in the 2023-24 school year, districts will no longer need to administer the civics test ( Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 120B.02, 02, subdivision 3 has been repealed by Chapter 55, Article 2, Section 66 ).

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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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Teaching Civics

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Update: In 2023, the Minnesota Legislature repealed the civics test requirement. Beginning in the 2023-24 school year, districts will no longer need to administer the civics test ( Minnesota Statutes 2022, section 120B.02, More Information [link] The post Minnesota Civics Test appeared first on Teaching Civics.

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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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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

Engaging Citizenship introduces foundational concepts in political science through the lens of citizenship, democracy, and civic engagement, highlighting the relevance of the discipline to students’ lives and encouraging them to become engaged and empowered citizens.

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Political Science Civics Civic Engagement K-12 54

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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Civics Geography Public School Library 90

The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

Experts say that requires regular and high-quality social studies lessons, starting in kindergarten, to teach kids to be critical thinkers and communicators who know how to take meaningful action. Related: It’s time our educational institutions instilled some civic-minded values in students.

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Social Studies Civics Controversial Topics Elementary School 111

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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Public School High School Civics Elementary School 144

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2021

You cannot attend public schools, visit the public library, eat in restaurants, enjoy public parks, go to churches or attend movie theaters. Eight states have outlawed the teaching of critical race theory , or CRT, a concept they believe will negatively influence their K-12 students. You have no rights.

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American History K-12 Civics History 107

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. The program then builds on these strengths.

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Civic Engagement Civics Leadership Elementary School 89

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. But nothing felt quite right, until he considered teaching. But I did enjoy teaching. This month, we are featuring Caleb Brown. Is that right?

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History Museum Social Studies Geography 129

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

We are two American public-school dads who just returned from a fact-finding trip through Finland. Singapore has launched a series of Finnish-style school reforms. We observed schools in Finland that give children four 15-minute free-play breaks a day. 8) Shorten the school day. Photo: William Doyle. education?

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Education Economics Civics Public School 112

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Related: What if public schools never reopen? The right’s blind faith insists that “if we have school choice in the form of charter schools and private school vouchers … competitive pressures will force the schools and teachers to teach better, and to churn out students who are excelling academically.”.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Across the country, schools are adopting new approaches to teaching and learning in order to prepare students for life in a technology-rich world. Challenge-based, problem-based, project-based, and civic learning through community engagement are approaches that share a common interest in authentic learning.

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K-12 Education Civics Middle School 120

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

CREDIT SARAH WHITES-KODITSCHEK / ARKANSAS PUBLIC MEDIA. Davida Walls never thought she would be teaching high school biology, let alone in the first few months after graduating from college at 22. This story was produced by Arkansas Public Media and is reprinted with permission. Teaching was not my initial goal.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

High schoolers at NACA graduate at much higher rates and tend to outperform their peers in Albuquerque Public Schools — which authorizes the charter — and throughout New Mexico. Those conversations prompted Albuquerque Public Schools to authorize NACA as its first charter. These teachers weren’t doing that.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

So Joffe created eLearn.fyi , a database of more than 300 online learning tools, including a civics curriculum founded by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and engineering lessons on how to build a robotic arm. “I realized that there was an opportunity sitting right in front of me,” she said. – CAYLA BAMBERGER.

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Education Civics Civic Engagement Psychology 122

Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Katherine Thrailkill considered careers in drama, law, and hi-tech sales before realizing all her interests and experiences pointed her toward teaching social studies. Lindblom based it on a summer seminar she attended in the early 2000s: the Presidential Academy, a forerunner of Teaching American History’s current programs.

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American History History Civics Political Science 98

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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World History Civic Engagement High School Elementary School 141

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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Civics American History Elementary School Critical Thinking 105

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In the face of Georgia’s HB 1084 Protect Students First Act, often referred to as the “divisive concepts” act, many teachers are being told to avoid teaching about race, gender, class, climate change, and other topics. Includes guidance for adults on why and how to have those conversations.

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Museum Civic Engagement Civics History 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

But if there’s one job that can’t be taken over by artificial intelligence, it’s teaching. The best civics lesson requires you to leave the classroom. Let’s be clear: Teachers who can’t understand students’ cultural backgrounds or teach complex ideas are no better than a computer that can’t. Related: Go vote.

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Humanities K-12 Civics Professional Development 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Related: One state mandates teaching climate change in almost every subject — even PE. While 95 percent of 58,000 primary and secondary teachers in 2021 felt that teaching climate change is important, just 32 percent felt they can explain climate change in their local context. Furthermore, at COP 27, UNESCO, the U.N.’s

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Civics High School Critical Thinking Social Studies 111

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

Each year, the Zinn Education Project hosts Teaching for Black Lives study groups across the United States. Using the Rethinking Schools book Teaching for Black Lives , educators explore how to teach about racism, resistance, and joy in free, teacher-led professional learning communities.

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Teaching K-12 Professional Development Library 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2019

The heart of one teacher-education class that I teach is politics. Not the politics of education, where we talk about the laws that govern public schools, but politics and education, where we talk about how big, thorny political issues affect students and families. The best civics lesson requires you to leave the classroom.

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Civics Public School Government Teaching 80

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

I had a pretty hard time relating to my students eight years ago, when I began teaching fifth-grade special education in a “self-contained” classroom in the East Tremont neighborhood of the Bronx. These students had a hard time relating not only to me but also to the academic content I attempted to teach them.

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Civics Middle School Leadership Public School 82

The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2017

Black teachers had always been a bulwark of the middle class – by taking away the opportunity to teach in their community, you remove a proven route out of poverty. Collectively, the fired teachers had more than 15 years of average teaching experience. Related: What happened when a city full of teachers, most of them black, was fired.

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Education Civics Public School Humanities 83

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

The kids that I teach remind me a lot of myself in their trajectory,” said Montás, who was the first in his family to go to college: He immigrated to the city — a scared, Spanish-speaking 12-year-old — from the Dominican Republic. The kids that I teach remind me a lot of myself in their trajectory. How are the masses best governed?

Museum 89

Museum Humanities Civics High School 89

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. Apple joined President Obama’s ConnectED initiative and pledged $100 million of teaching and learning solutions to 114 underserved schools across the country.

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Education K-12 Middle School Professional Development 107