Date: Jun 7 2017
Author:
Rich Cairn, Emerging America, Collaborative for Educational Services, Northampton, Massachusetts
Completed mostly by secondary social studies teachers and by school and district administrators, the survey shows a robust social studies program at the secondary level across Massachusetts. Most districts offer some kind of civics course. A majority offer some sort of civic engagement project. Of som…
Date: Apr 17 2015
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NEWS
SURVEY: What grad credit do you need? Do you need PDPs in History? Education? https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2015EmergingAmerica
Civics & Social Studies PD in the New Federal Education Act? - Learn how you can support it. Learn how to involve youth in civic engagement. April 22, 6:00pm - Advocacy Webinar - Civics for All - National Council for the Social Studies www.socialstudies.org/adv…
Date: Nov 1 2016
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Emerging America History eNEWS Vol. 3, Issue 32 for November 2, 2016
NEWSYOUR INPUT NEEDED by State survey on Civic Learning and Engagement.
Mark your calendars: ESE 2nd Annual Conference on Civic Learning & Engagement - May 8, 2017 - EM Kennedy Institute in Boston.
Date: May 4 2015
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This performance task requires students to compare text, sound files, and images to deepen their understanding of the efforts by African Americans to advance the Double V Campaign (victory over racism at war and at home) during WWII. A timeline helps students sequence and visualize the relative length of time between events. Anticipating a growing national emphasis on the use of text analysis,…
Date: Nov 6 2016
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[caption id="attachment_9875" align="alignright" width="218"] Miss [Lucy] Burns in Occoquan Workhouse, Washington.[/caption]In an age of mass incarceration, tracing the origins and history of detainment is a meaningful exercise in understanding the current situation of imprisonment in the United States. Drawing on items such as images, maps, political cartoons, and reports available from the digit…
Date: Jun 14 2017
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More than 60 Attend Joint Education Committee Hearing on Civic Education
[caption id="attachment_10308" align="alignright" width="300"] Rich Cairn with Sen. Harriette Chandler. [/caption]Sen. Sonia Chang-Díaz and Rep. Alice Peisch held a two-hour hearing on 26 Civic Education bills introduced in this session of the General Court of Massachusetts.
Sen. Harriet Chandler, Sen. Eric Lesser, Rep. Lind…