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Cruz, Bárbara C. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2018
At the turn of the 20th century, Pink Teas (alternately known as "suffrage teas") were held by women who championed women's right to vote. In this article, the author provides historical background on Pink Teas and ideas of how to teach about them in the elementary classroom.
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, United States History, History Instruction, Civil Rights
Skinner, Rebecca R.; Loane, Shannon S. – Congressional Research Service, 2016
The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) was initially enacted in 1965 (P.L. 89-10). Since then, there have been 13 major reauthorizations of the ESEA, with the most recent reauthorization occurring in 2015 with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, P.L. 114-95). This report provides information on the votes taken in the House and Senate…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Legislators
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Karatzimas, Sotirios – Accounting Education, 2020
The aim of this study is to bring under the spotlight the need for a broader public sector accounting education plan that would facilitate the development of participatory citizens. The study develops a conceptual framework that links citizens' government accounting literacy with various community-related decisions and in particular citizens'…
Descriptors: Accounting, Multiple Literacies, Citizen Participation, Democracy
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Staudt Willet, K. Bret; Carpenter, Jeffrey P. – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2020
The website Reddit has received scant attention from educational researchers despite the presence of numerous teaching-related subreddits that host thousands of threaded conversations. The purpose of this study was to provide an initial comparison of discussions occurring in several different affinity spaces on Reddit. Because of the lack of…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Social Media, Social Networks, Network Analysis
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Kozminska, Kinga; Zhu, Hua – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
This article aims to examine how sociopolitical changes impact language ideology and linguistic practices within transnational multilingual families with a particular focus on families with ties to Poland in post-EU-referendum Britain. Drawing on the survey and ethnographic interview data collected as part of the ESRC-funded Family Language Policy…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Public Policy, Family Relationship, Language Usage
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Murray-Everett, Natasha C.; Demoiny, Sara B. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2022
This instrumental case study examines how elementary teacher candidates (TCs) came to understand citizenship and civic engagement after participating in a news group project during the 2020 presidential election season. TCs formed a binary understanding of civic engagement as "passive" vs. "active," viewing themselves as active…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Civics
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Fourie-Malherbe, Magda; Schreiber, Birgit – Journal of College and Character, 2019
The majority of voters in South Africa still do not take democratic elections for granted, but the decline in voting participation is a cause for concern in South Africa, as in other parts of the world. In addition, widespread student protests at higher education institutions during 2015 and 2016, including those at African and South African…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student School Relationship, Neoliberalism, Higher Education
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Saperstein, Evan; Fancera, Samuel F. – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2020
This fictional case presents the challenges school districts face when developing a new curriculum. After the school board voted to create a global studies program at Northern High School, the social studies supervisor had the responsibility of designing and implementing the curriculum. With only a few months to implement the curriculum, the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Global Education, Social Studies, Curriculum Development
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Edmonds, Matthew C. – History of Education Quarterly, 2020
In 1969, four years after passage of the Voting Rights Act, African Americans in Greene County, Alabama, reclaimed control of local government, becoming the first community in the South to do so since Reconstruction. A half century later, however, Greene County remains an impoverished and largely segregated area with poor educational outcomes,…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Counties, School Segregation, School Choice
Cunningham, Maurice T. – Network for Public Education, 2023
They show up shouting at school board meetings with endless complaints. The press interviews them as though they are "regular moms" looking out for their children, but they are not. They are a well-funded façade for the Koch, Walton, and DeVos families to disrupt and destroy public education. In our new report, author and academician…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Public Education, Deception, Financial Support
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Boeynaems, Amber; Burgers, Christian; Konijn, Elly A. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
The rhetoric used by right-wing anti-immigration politicians is considered important to their political success. Such rhetoric commonly contains figurative frames with metaphor and/or hyperbole. In two experiments (n[subscript experiment1] = 411, n[subscript experiment2] = 407), we tested when and how such figurative frames add to the intense and…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Persuasive Discourse, Immigration, Voting
Alexander S. Kappus – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Over the course of the past three decades, scholars and practitioners lamented low levels of political engagement among college students (National Task Force on Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement, 2012; Thomas et al., 2019). The civic engagement movement formed to address concerns about student preparedness for engaging in American…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Political Attitudes, Citizen Participation, College Students
Sarah R. Cohodes; James J. Feigenbaum – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
In the United States, people with more education vote more. But, we know little about why education increases political participation or whether higher-quality education increases civic participation. We study applicants to Boston charter schools, using school lotteries to estimate charter attendance impacts for academic and voting outcomes.…
Descriptors: Voting, Charter Schools, Political Attitudes, Citizen Participation
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Berg, Lukas; Chambers, John – Journal of Political Science Education, 2019
Over the course of three semesters spanning the 2016 primary and general elections, we conducted a series of quasi-experiments to evaluate the effects of prediction markets on undergraduate interest in the political process. We gave several classes in our institution's core American politics course the opportunity to collectively invest in…
Descriptors: Voting, Political Science, Introductory Courses, Prediction
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Vassallo, Francesca – Journal of Political Science Education, 2020
As a contribution to the Teaching & Learning Symposium on Comparative Politics organized by APSA, this short article discusses the challenges in Introduction to Comparative Politics classes when comparative political behavior is examined. In the tradition of studying political participation, the discipline has witnessed the development of…
Descriptors: Political Science, Comparative Analysis, Activism, Social Action
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