APSA Educate

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

These students are more likely to get their … The post Using Social Media in American Government Classes to Encourage Political Engagement and Media Literacy appeared first on APSA.

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World History Teachers Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Among the 45 images are Hitler and Mussolini shaking hands in Germany, Japanese aircraft carrying out air raids over China, Chinese General Chiang Kai-shek sitting with the chairman of the Yunan provincial government, and four Italian soldiers taking aim in Ethiopia in 1935.

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Passion for Social Studies

DECEMBER 27, 2024

One topic that is always popular when teaching any government course is the presidency. The lessons include required elements for AP US Government and Politics, so they push students to analyze this branch critically. Honestly, students are always so engaged to learn about the person who is the leader of the United States.

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World History Teachers Blog

JANUARY 5, 2025

The urgent need for manpower in the war led the French to begin negotiations with the Chinese government for Chinese laborers as this essay from the Guardian notes. The thread includes interesting links and a trailer for a movie from Yellow Earth Productions called "Forgotten" about China during the war.

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Strange Maps

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Instead, to arrive at their Corruption Perceptions Index and Control of Corruption Indicator (respectively), they aggregate the opinions of experts in governance and corruption. Blavatskyy postulated that there is a positive relationship between the median BMI and a countrys level of government corruption.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Project Title:Examining Womens Representation in Tribal Governance: An Analysis of Executive and Legislative Roles Tessa Provins, University of Arizona Tessa Provins is an assistant professor in the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. Read about the funded projects.

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Moler's Musing

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

This week, we dug into the foundations of the United States government and explored how early laws shaped the country’s growth. EduProtocols were front and center as we kept students engaged and active in their learning: Monday: Introduced The Tier List to rank government systems and used Iron Chef with Padlet to analyze types of governments.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Analysts said the difference likely came down to leadership in some states being “simply more effective at steering districts to focus on student learning” in the face of vague spending guidelines from the federal government.

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Sapiens

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In Asia and Oceania, Spanish rule for over 300 years introduced Catholicism and centralized governance in places like present-day Guam , the Philippines, and Taiwan, deeply altering the identity and languages of these regions. Without a clear understanding of what lies within their vaults, museums cannot fulfill this duty.

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Moler's Musing

JANUARY 24, 2025

Wednesday: George Washington Takes Office We jumped into Lesson 2: George Washington Takes Office , diving into how Washington and Congress worked to strengthen the federal government. The establishment of key government structures. For example: A chain symbolizing the unification of state debts under the federal government.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Many adults, as well as the vast majority of my high school-age peers, don’t seem to understand how government works and as a result don’t trust it. The Pew Research Center has been tracking public trust in government since 1958 and the decline in trust is very real.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Assessing the Ecological Fit of the Social Institutions that Globally Govern Antimicrobial Resistance By Isaac Weldon , University of Copenhagen and Steven J. Yet, current governance systems for AMR are ill-equipped to meet these goals. We consider how a similar approach can improve global AMR governance. Fit for Purpose?

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Sapiens

MARCH 11, 2025

Through the violent military campaign known as the Conquest of the Desert , the Argentine government gained control over the southern portion of the continent, killing and displacing Indigenous peoples and moving to assimilate the rest through educational and religious initiatives.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 8, 2020

I never had Mrs. McDonald or Mrs. O’Neil as teachers per se, but they were both student government advisors who were always willing to lend an open ear, whether it was school or personal related. I struggled to earn a good grade in both classes, but because of the classroom culture he created, I worked hard.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Chinas Governance in the New Era of Xi Jinping By Elizabeth J. Operationally, however, its dynamic patterns of governance reflect the shifting concerns of a succession of visionary Communist Party leaders. Perspectives on Politics The post Chinas Governance in the New Era of Xi Jinping appeared first on. Read the full article.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

(Reading Recovery was criticized for not providing enough explicit instruction in decoding words; New Zealand is set to end government funding of the program.) The government made a rightward shift in 2023 to the National Party, ending six years of leadership under former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who had an international profile.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2025

Administered by the federal government, it tracks student performance in fourth and eighth grades and serves as a national yardstick of achievement. In reading, students slid below the devastatingly low achievement levels of 2022, which many educators had hoped would be a nadir. That’s a big deal. Its almost criminal.

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Moler's Musing

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The activity added relevance and encouraged them to connect historical decisions to the modern-day functioning of government. government. This served as a springboard to discuss how Federalists and Anti-Federalists debated the need for state approval and public buy-in to legitimize the new government.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Project Title:Exploring Indigenous Governance and Cultural Evolution in Oaxaca, Mexico Mauricio Fernndez Duque, Dartmouth College Mauricio Fernndez Duque is an assistant professor at CIDE and a visiting scholar at Dartmouth. Read about the funded projects.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

These systems could also, Smigielski points out, help state leaders make an argument to the federal government that they need more funding. And they could help states distribute the funds they get every year from the federal government in a more intentional way, making sure that dollars are flowing in the direction of need.

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Passion for Social Studies

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Are your government students excited for the upcoming election? This is even the perfect unit for teaching AP United States Government and Politics! I’m sure they are full of opinions and ready to discuss their thoughts with the class! This will definitely be an exciting election year.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2025

Beginning in the late 1980s, the federal government started to collect data on these two important, confounding factors academic achievement before diagnosis and disability severity so that policymakers could see how well students were faring under the 1975 federal law that mandates support for educating students with disabilities.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2024

For instance, one major initiative started during that time was the College Scorecard , which provides information on college options based on various government datasets. The dominant narrative was, ‘If students just have better info about where to go to college, more would go,’” he says. “I I said, ‘This is bananas.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

And the states extremely decentralized school governance system has hampered haphazard efforts to get the services into schools. For 10 years, the states pre-employment program has languished, with leadership turnover and bureaucratic infighting rendering it largely ineffective. New Jersey officials acknowledge that theres a problem.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Government doesnt rely upon the good intentions of individuals. Government creates a system and an infrastructure to extend education to all. Its all of this sort of race and anti-discrimination stuff that they want the federal government to get out of. Religion cant do that. It has never tried to do that.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The Electoral College process respects the federal character of the United States, giving certain roles to the states and others to the federal government. Much of the discussion during the Constitutional Convention revolved around measures needed to balance the powers of the state and national governments. How does the process work?

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

I held monthly meetings with all members of school government across all grade levels giving them an open forum to provide improvement ideas. Provide avenues for students to provide honest feedback on school culture. We also set up an Edmodo group to continue the conversation.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 29, 2025

This site has thankfully been spared from destruction by the regional government when it was earmarked as a possible tourist attraction. While we were grateful that this impressive midden has been preserved, the government official accompanying us pointed out shells littering the landscape several hundred feet away.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2025

In 2024, accessible, high-quality pre-K was one of the top two policy solutions approved by voters, state government or city officials in the countrys 75 largest cities, the report found. CityHealth is partnering with the National Institute for Early Education Research to track this progress here.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Students do this all the time when dictator-like policies and rules govern technology use. Obviously kids can use technology to do this now as well. Did you ever break any school rules that you didn't agree with? The point here is that it is not a technology issue, but many people make it one. The behavior argument that many make is flawed.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The federal government funneled millions of dollars into schools up until recently, in hopes of turning the tide of falling scores and keeping students on grade level.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

But our research on firewood gathering by Diné people shows the federal government can do more to ensure the promises of equitable co-management. A number of different groups are engaged in this process, including federal, state, and local government agencies; conservation organizations; and tribes.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Most of Colorado’s white settlers and their leaders did not understand tribal government. Plains Indian Tribes such as the Cheyenne and Arapaho were not united under a governing alliance. When they negotiated with a tribal leader, they assumed that leader possessed the power to enforce treaties. The reality was very different.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Mainstreaming Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services into Decision-Making Analyzes how the IPBES framework can guide policy and decision-making processes in planning and governance. Source: Environmental Policy and Governance, 2021. Source: Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2018. Source: Land Use Policy, 2016.

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Moler's Musing

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then Breaking Down the Crisis We kept coming back to our main unit question , using it to frame our discussion on how tariffs and nullification created tension between the federal government and the states. To break things down, we used a Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then chart to map out key players and their perspectives.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Things Can Go Terribly Wrong Idahos conservative legislature generally favors deregulation and a free-market approach, believing that most industries can govern themselves better than any public entity can. If approved, and barring a governors veto, it would become law July 1. Thats their logic behind House Bill 243 as well.

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HistoryRewriter

MARCH 4, 2024

They have used this protocol with middle to high school grades covering history and government topics. Some of our awesome EduProtocol friends: Angela Zorn , Dominic Helmstetter , and Steph Conklin shared some examples in the gallery below.

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