The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

I taught my students to respect the power of civic engagement and social activism. We must do this through teaching, learning and advocacy — as well as social activism and civic engagement. Recent politics has made it hard to extend that work. I have trained in, taught and led educator preparation programs.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

studied civics in the fall of 2016, they began by exploring a nearby park in Pontiac. “This study shows that a well-designed project-based curriculum might be more effective than traditional instruction.” Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. When a classroom of second graders in Waterford, Mich.,

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

McCoy says he prizes them primarily for instilling moral and civic virtues in students. Civic learning is just too important an issue to abandon because of “bad actors,” McCoy says. McCoy published a survey of classical learning schools in 2021 for Manhattan Institute, which painted it as an “attractive option for parents.”

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Dangerously Irrelevant

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Our new information landscape requires citizens and workers who are fluent with technology tools and online environments and is reshaping how we learn, interact, gain the attention of others, and engage in civic togetherness.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Yet as schools break away from traditional models of education, new challenges emerge. Collaboration among all education stakeholders, including researchers, entrepreneurs, community members, and educators, is needed to alter traditional teaching and learning processes and successfully meet these challenges. Why is this important?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2019

Research shows that math anxiety is prevalent, and the effects of this can linger long after students finish school, interfering with their ability to use quantitative reasoning in their professional and civic lives. The math taught in high schools often doesn’t align with the needs of many fields or the expectations of many colleges.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 14, 2025

Supporting teachers in shifting from traditional instruction to an inquiry-based framework required ongoing encouragement, classroom modeling, and troubleshooting challenges as they arose. Throughout this process, administrative coaching was essential.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Then there's the more constructivist orientation: games as sites for meaning-making, in the Piagetian tradition. In these, socially networked players are not only competing and generating creative content, but contributing to communities and participating in civic life. What, in your opinion, makes good game-based learning?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

Traditional math proponents worried that the document would water down math instruction in California, hinder advanced students and make it harder to pursue STEM careers. College-bound students still need the traditional course sequence and cannot substitute data science for advanced algebra.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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Civics U

JULY 18, 2022

As traditional leaders they opposed attempts to bring running water and electricity into their village. But they also knew that these developments would impact and weaken the traditional “Hopi Way” of life which they were committed to maintaining. This author recalls meeting Hopi tribal elders John and Mina Lanza in the 1960’s.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Past Events include: Preparing Students for the 2024 Election: Civic and Campus Engagement Engaging the 2024 U.S. Her research agenda focuses on political science pedagogy, campus-based civic engagement, and pop culture & politics.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2018

But if this civic action is to be sustained and to extend to topics beyond gun violence and school safety, schools need to do more to nurture these students’ dispositions toward political participation so they can continue to engage in informed and effective ways. Related: COLUMN: Making America whole again via civics education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Related: To fight teacher shortages, some states are looking to community colleges to train a new generation of educators The traditional perception of teachers as the sole arbiters of knowledge, dispensed within school buildings from 8 a.m. for 10 months a year, needs to be expanded. We cannot wait.

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ED Surge

MARCH 30, 2023

Together, we explored how to engage in civic life with love and wisdom. Roberts continues that tradition for his students at Amherst. Let’s continue this tradition.” She will forever be one of my greatest teachers. His former professor gave books away to students who visited during office hours. All they need to do is ask.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Ignatius, in addition to the traditional 18- to 22-year-old students, particularly low-income and first-generation college students. Making the shift isn’t easy, particularly for centuries-old institutions built from the ground up to focus on traditional baccalaureate and graduate programs. We ignore this at our own risk.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

Students are looking for something different from teachers and professors as they prepare to enter political and civic life, and that means educators need to change the way they support students when it comes to political engagement. This article is a partial transcript of an episode of the EdSurge Podcast. They've thought through them.

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Civics U

JUNE 2, 2022

Of course, the freedom of religion now also legally protects the freedom to believe in various non-Christian religions and religious traditions as well as the freedom “from” religion as found in atheism and secular humanism. But this, too, is subject to differing interpretations and applications.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2022

After the disruption of the pandemic, people in the field of education are more open to rethinking traditional ways of doing business in order to better serve students. YouthForce is an education, business and civic collaborative that helps prepare public school students in New Orleans for in-demand career pathways. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

All three strategies are in large part a reproach to traditional higher education, which has often failed to provide the right programs to the people who increasingly need them. Some of these new efforts are dramatically different from traditional higher education experiences, and their focus is almost entirely on nontraditional students.

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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. For him, the lessons students learn in this program are as important as the ones they learn in the traditional curriculum.

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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. No matter the path, arts education provides a way to creative careers of the future.

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Education Civics Critical Thinking Cultures 103

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

He argues for recovering America’s common school tradition, and reminds us that the founding principle of American public education was preparation for citizenship, not the private ends of “college and career.” He also taught civics at Democracy Prep Public Schools, a network of high-performing charter schools based in Harlem, New York.

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Civics U

DECEMBER 22, 2021

From an anthropological as well a historical viewpoint, religion- that is, a people’s world view – is at the core of traditional cultures around the world. On one hand traditional Christian activities continue. Christmas is obviously an important custom in American culture.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

In what has become an annual tradition, we’re sharing your favorite episodes of the year, as determined by the number of listens to the 44 fresh episodes we produced. A new book by a high school history and civics teacher collects innovative strategies, and argues that getting the issue right is crucial for building a strong democracy.

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Diane Ravitch

JANUARY 31, 2023

Conservatives are creating “civics” institutes as a vehicle for patriotic indoctrination, not as a means to think critically about how to improve democracy. Censorship, which DeSantis practices, would be condemned in any genuine civics class. The letters refer to diversity, equity and inclusion programs and critical race theory.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The best civics lesson requires you to leave the classroom. Like many online schools, students at the school took self-guided, online lessons at home or somewhere with adequate broadband and the support of an offsite teacher who could also work outside a traditional schoolhouse. Related: Go vote.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2018

We now know that formative or “real-time” assessment can support student learning better than traditional evaluations. There’s no doubt about the importance of social and emotional competencies in college, civic, career and life success. Related: How to sort the good from the bad in OER.

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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. Two of our VILS locations are on Maui, Hawaii, which has an extraordinarily rich culture and strong community traditions.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Young people are often the face of powerful movements as they have the potential to break the systemic barriers embedded in the traditional education system by distributing leadership to the community. However, when people closest to the classroom are put in positions of power, decisions are more likely to reflect their needs.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

Broadly speaking, she said, in indigenous traditions, it’s the latter. Credit: Ishwarya Daggubati for The Hechinger Report Drawing on the tension between the two worldviews, her work presents students with moral dilemmas about nature and opportunities to take civic action on behalf of the wild world.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

More engaging than traditional summer school. Programs that encourage reading, thinking and discussion of ideas can be much more effective at pushing students toward college than traditional summer school, said Mandy Savitz-Romer , a former urban school counselor who is now a senior lecturer in the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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Museum Humanities Civics Political Science 81

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

And of the positions that were filled, many were staffed by people who do not have traditional training or are not considered qualified to work in the subject area they are teaching. has a population of just 103 people, but civic engagement is high, including intense public support for its tiny school district.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 5, 2019

Wilson co-leads a summer institute called Learning Environments for Tomorrow (LEFT) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education — bringing together researchers, architects, designers, and educators to explore how learning spaces can support various goals, such as playfulness, collaboration, and civic engagement.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Across academic, philanthropic, and civic sectors, local leaders are creating awareness and access to meaningful, equitable learning experiences for young people and their families — both in and out of school.? . — Dana Borrelli-Murray (@DBorrelliMurray) September 24, 2019. — Grant Knowles (@GrantLearns) September 24, 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2019

National service is no longer considered a civic responsibility by America’s upper class. Lastly, the federal government should establish net cost disclosure requirements for veterans, as it has for traditional students. Stanford, Harvard and the majority of other top private schools lack on-campus ROTC programs.

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TCI

MARCH 1, 2024

Integration of Economics and Civics for Real-World Connections Geography is only one of the social science disciplines. In Early Civilizations in the Americas, students examine the Olmec, Maya, Caral, and Mississippian traditions and cultures. These projects utilize videos to ignite curiosity and develop inquiry skills.

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