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Forget civics class: Students want to make a difference in real life

The Hechinger Report

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Andrew Brennen, National Geographic education fellow.

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Dreaming bigger for Iowa education

Dangerously Irrelevant

each regional Area Education Agency had the capacity to help its districts create project-based learning ‘incubators?’ some may already). kind of like Iowa BIG in Cedar Rapids). there was statewide pressure from school districts on educator preparation programs to be more relevant? Help us make it happen?”

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All ninth graders study at the local 4-H center in this Maine district

The Hechinger Report

Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Leave this field empty if you're human: The kind of leadership and responsibility that shone through EB’s speech is actively encouraged at this unusual program in rural Maine. Choose as many newsletters as you like. Weekly Update.

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Standardized Tests Aren’t Going Anywhere. So What Do We Do?

Cult of Pedagogy

After all, framed that way, teachers give hundreds of standardized tests a year, even those who do learner-centered assessment, project-based learning, or otherwise collect evidence of student learning in ways that are considered alternative or non-traditional. Put like that, they feel benign, almost harmless.

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Anatomy of a failure: How an XQ Super School flopped

The Hechinger Report

Related: Project-based learning boosts student engagement, understanding. Curtatone encouraged Resnick and Duffy to take advantage of Massachusetts’ Innovation Schools provision, which offers public schools much of the flexibility charters enjoy without the independent governance that makes charter opponents bristle.

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Is the Post-Pandemic Era Ripe for Rethinking High School?

ED Surge

It’s a moment when XQ Institute’s agenda — that schools should offer more project-based learning, allow more flexibility in their schedules, and assign classwork more explicitly connected to career paths that interest students — may excite education leaders searching for solutions. “You

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9 Easy Civics PBL Project Ideas That Will Empower Your Students

Let's Cultivate Greatness

We call it Civics, not Government, class because its purpose is to instill a sense of citizen duty and participation, not just a memorization of concepts and amendments. Email or Call Government Officials Find at least one small way to connect with an elected official during class. Its such a great question for this project.

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