Let's Cultivate Greatness

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Its easy to focus on just the President when teaching the Executive Branch, but its important also to stress the role of the four million other people who make up this branch of government. Here are some of my favorite lessons and activities for teaching the executive branch in my high school Civics and Government class.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2025

People in different places made different choices about governance, resource sharing, and social cooperation. Others developed traditions or institutions that emphasized reciprocity and mutual aid. .” Instead, the picture that emerges is one of human agency. These decisions mattered—and they still do.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Among them is: How will we ensure diverse leadership in this country if student diversity decreases at Ivy League and other top colleges? We should instead be asking this: Why are we so laser-focused on the graduates of a tiny number of schools, presuming they are the rightful inhabitants of leadership posts in business and government?

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Political Science Now

MAY 13, 2025

Schwartz Professor of Government at Cornell University. In addition to teaching traditional political science courses, she serves as campaign manager for the campus-wide voter mobilization program Vote Oswego and coordinator of SUNY Oswegos broader civic engagement efforts. Roberts is the Richard J.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This would be especially true in the case of unified government where loyalty to party might come to interfere with the system of checks and balances. Given these concerns, it is little wonder that the Founders did not want parties participating in American government.

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Students of History

MAY 24, 2024

This year marked the first time that applicants were required to submit video essays on their favorite history lessons, as opposed to traditional essays. Toyosi’s exemplary academic performance and leadership qualities were highlighted in the glowing recommendations from her teachers.

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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

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. There was nothing like this.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In September 2024, EdNCs early childhood team attended The Hunt Institute's 2024 Early Childhood Leadership Summit , which included teams from all 50 states comprised of senior elected officials, gubernatorial staff, mayors, local elected leaders, and key early childhood system leaders. Alabama has the flexibility to do so.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

While district policies can provide opportunities for improving student achievement, our results suggest that this impact varies widely and requires strong school-level leadership and effort. No school governance model is predominant. It’s also clear that the laws governing school improvement must be revisited and strengthened.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2020

Most American universities are run by a process of shared governance, or the practice of recognizing faculty, administrators, staff and students as integral stakeholders in a university’s success, and the success of the individual members of that university community. higher education. . higher-education institutions. higher education.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

President Jokowi Widodo, more commonly known as ”Jokowi,” and Vice President Jusuf Kalla surprised the public when attending Indonesia’s 2017 State of the Union Address (SOTU) by wearing traditional attire. Consequently, any traditional ethnic attire he wears inherently signifies Indonesian identity.

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ED Surge

APRIL 20, 2022

And that has implications for higher ed providers trying to promote non-degree programs as a way for people to get ahead in the workforce , as well as for government officials considering how to hold job-training programs accountable for student outcomes. This calls into question the value alternative credentials have for job seekers.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

If, after class, you read tweets by the same professor saying that black students are “generally inferior academically to white students” and that members of the LBGTQ community only want marriage rights “to get spousal fringe benefits from the government,” you might find fault with your professor’s boss for not firing the prejudiced chauvinist.

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In 2006, during the United Progressive Alliance Regime under the leadership of Prime Minister, Mr. Manmohan Singh, the Government of India initiated National Tribal Policy. The primary aim of the policy was to correct several mishaps of the earlier policies centering on the Tribal population of the country.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

Recently, EdSurge spoke with John McGrath , Director of sales and strategy at Alight Solutions , where he specializes in the education and government sectors in the firm’s Workday Adaptive Planning practice. This fosters a supportive leadership culture that comprehends campus dynamics and provides enhanced support accordingly.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

But traditional internships are not universally accessible. “At Not everybody is a traditional 18- to 22-year-old student,” Churches said. In the semester-long course, volunteers from employer partners coach and mentor a small cohort of students on career skills, including leadership, problem-solving and communication.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

DECENTRALISATION and ANTHROPOLOGY Decentralisation is the process of dispersing decision-making governance closer to the people and/or citizen. It includes the dispersal of administration or governance in sectors or areas like engineering, management science, political science, political economy, sociology and economics.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

And she was running for the school’s governing board. At the same time, teachers around the country have watched their autonomy erode, due to such factors as standardized testing mandates, laws governing what can and can’t be taught and growing demands for “ parental rights.” We all put in countless extra hours.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Senior James Lopes, wearing a green sweatshirt, listens to William Frey teach a lesson on polynomials, rational trigonometrics, exponential and logarithmic functions at the Calculus Project’s summer leadership academy program at Boston University. Parents Defending Education did not respond to several interview requests.

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Six New Hampshire schools have no grade levels – a traditional hallmark of just about every school. “It’s And the state’s leadership has remained consistent. “A States must submit plans for how they will measure and improve student achievement to the federal government in the spring. Most are trying to figure it out.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

We know that education reform is far from simple: Charter schools modestly accelerate the learning of students from poor and working-class families, relative to their peers who attend traditional campuses. Wise governments reward families who strive to propel their children. as well, thanks in part to high-quality charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Having traditional-aged students engage with enlisted veterans, while ensuring that veterans have access to civilian leadership opportunities, contributes to a healthier democracy. As one of the institutions that supports our democratic traditions, we need to better appreciate its role in our society.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

One critical leadership behavior is helping educators understand that information literacy is everyone’s job, not just that of the librarian or media specialist. I’m not sure how many teachers would be willing to try this, however, given schools’ traditional aversion to anything controversial.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2016

The NAACP resolution calls for school districts and the federal government to create structures that hold charter schools to the same standards to which they hold traditional public schools. Education reformers have built their platform and careers on the value of accountability. Should taxpayers not welcome redress?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

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. In her decades at the traditional high school, she saw her students becoming increasingly aimless and disengaged. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

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. Consider the NHRC’s use of the phrase “licit and illicit” in principle 1.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2017

Institutions including Lebanon Valley College face demographic shifts, constrained family incomes, student preferences toward professionally oriented majors over some of the traditional liberal arts, and rapid technological change. Chamber of Commerce Foundation as saying that “employers have ‘less and less confidence’ in traditional degrees.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Educator preparation is moving in this direction and taking a major step to becoming a profession governed by agreed upon standards that are both enforced and regulated by a system of assessment that is reliable and valid. Performance assessment is now required for program completion, licensure or program approval in more than 20 states.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2019

They have the drive, work ethic and leadership skills to succeed in the classroom. They’ve also demonstrated the leadership skills and work ethic necessary to succeed and contribute in America’s top classrooms. It’s a problem that must be solved. Veterans should be welcome and present at our nation’s top colleges and universities.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

But at the nation’s most selective schools, where most students follow the traditional pipeline from high school to a degree within four years — and from which many go on to leadership roles in government and industry — veterans like Fendler are an anomaly. In leadership and life, symbolism counts.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2021

Despite recent talk of debt relief and free college, little government help has been forthcoming, especially for working adults. With the government mostly out of the picture, employers set aside tens of billions each year for tuition benefits programs, supposedly with the hope of building the skilled workforce they need.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Kids in traditional schools sometimes act like they’re on a cruise ship, where they sit on deck and teachers bring them stuff to do,” Berger said. “We As a prelude to discussing leadership, peer pressure and conflict, a Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, played a game called “Instigator.”

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

The announcement led to a “lengthy and transparent national search” for Rhian Evans Allvin’s successor, says Ann McClain Terrell, NAEYC’s governing board president. But certainly the leadership transition for the nonprofit comes during a period of incredible upheaval—arguably a crisis—in early childhood education.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Executive Director provides leadership and vision; gives strategic advice to the governing officials and committees and implements their goals; communicates with members; manages the staff and budget, oversees all Association activities; and represents the Association to the outside world.

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