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The importance of social studies and information literacy

Dangerously Irrelevant

suburbs and whose parents worked for the federal government, today’s events have been… challenging. I think that what I will say here is: Policymakers, you know how you’ve minimized the importance of history, government, and civics in all of your education reform efforts over the past couple of decades? Related Posts.

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Many ‘informal’ child care providers are entitled to pay. Most don’t know it

The Hechinger Report

Between a third and a half of all children under the age of five receive informal care from a family member, friend or neighbor, making it the most common child care arrangement for this age group outside of parental care. In California about one in four of informal caregivers go unpaid, the Early Edge report noted.

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Local Governance Falters Due to Uninformed Officials

Political Science Now

This piece, written by Komal Preet Kaur , covers the new article by Adam Michael Auerbach, Shikhar Singh and Tariq Thachil, “Who Knows How to Govern? This assumption raises critical questions: Do local authorities genuinely have the knowledge required for decentralized governance? And what are the consequences if they do not?

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PROOF POINTS: What happens when private student information leaks

The Hechinger Report

In a report publicly released in October 2020 , the Government Accountability Office (GAO) counted 99 school data breaches over the past four years, from July 2016 to May 2020, that compromised the personal information of thousands of students in kindergarten through high school. Attacks by cyber criminals were rare, the GAO found.

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Who Knows How to Govern? Procedural Knowledge in India’s Small-Town Councils

Political Science Now

Who Knows How to Govern? Procedural Knowledge in India’s Small-Town Councils By Adam Michael Auerbach, Johns Hopkins University , Shikhar Singh , Duke University and Tariq Thachil, University of Pennsylvania Governments across the Global South have decentralized a degree of power to municipal authorities. Read the full article.

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Socrative Review Games for Social Studies

Passion for Social Studies

The Government Review Games and Sociology Review Games are ready to excite students and get them to think critically. Ultimately, this data can inform instruction and provide valuable insights into student learning. Government Review Games Get ready to accelerate and engage your students with these games!

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Using a Smart Board to teach federalism in American National Government

APSA Educate

u) Active learning is an important component of classrooms as it helps students reinforce information after listening to a professor’s lecture (Lang 2021). By Elizabeth Dorssom (DorssomE@lincolnu.ed