Teaching Civics

MAY 15, 2023

…Using Children’s Literature to Teach Economics and Civics Tuesday, June 20 | 8:30AM-2:30PM CST | Gr. K-5 Join us as we consider how economic and civic concepts and skills foster reasoned decision-making for ourselves and our community. Copyright (C) 2023 Minnesota Council on Economic Education. Integration!…Using

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ACRE

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Women have always worked, and yet their economic contributions are often undervalued. Her economic history research expands 200 years to provide an account of women’s participation in labor markets over time and describe the history of women’s continuing economic liberation. Dr. Claudia Goldin wanted to understand why.

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ACRE

OCTOBER 18, 2022

What is Econ Challenge: The National Economics Challenge (NEC) is the country’s only economics competition of its kind for 9-12th grade students. It tests micro and macroeconomic principles as well as knowledge of the world economy. This motivating and fun team learning experience begins with competitions at the state level.

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CORE Econ

JULY 30, 2023

It doesn’t matter what background you have; as an economics instructor, you can teach about the economics of race and ethnicity. There is a way you can teach the economics of race and ethnicity, even if that’s not your academic background, says Martha Omolo, Lecturer in Economics at the University of Exeter Business School.

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History Havoc

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In sports, economic growth can be measured by attendance figures. After all, any sports franchise needs to draw fans to its games to make money and thus compete within its own league. For this post, I want to look at attendance figures from baseball during the 1880s compared to the growth of some of the cities where these teams played.

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Michelle Wood

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

I’ve been trying to incorporate activities to change things up a bit for my AP Macro, AP Micro and Economics students. So, let’s make things a little more relatable with some economics activities (which are perfect for distance learning). I’m sharing links to some of my favorite Economics Activities Nearpods.

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ACRE

JANUARY 9, 2023

The 2022 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences (in Memory of Alfred Nobel) has been awarded to three economists; Ben S. Connections to Arkansas Learning Standards: Economics: EM.3.E.3 Connections to Arkansas Learning Standards: Economics: EM.3.E.3 How do individuals respond to financial crises? Bernanke, Douglas W.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Over the past 12 months, we have been part of an Opportunity America working group studying the changes needed for community colleges to become the engine for both economic mobility and national competitiveness. The post OPINION: Community colleges can be the engine of economic recovery. Related: Special Report on Community Colleges.

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Ashleigh's Education Journey

DECEMBER 3, 2017

There are SO MANY fun ways to make economics activities engaging and hands-on for students, and it’s a great way to incorporate a little math into instruction. This post shares some of my favorite ways to teach economics to upper elementary students. I begin my economics unit by teaching about goods and services.

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Michelle Wood

JULY 14, 2021

Digital Version of AP Econ Notes Included For each AP Economics topic I include a pdf version to print, but also a digital version too! Other AP Economics Notes Check out all of my note sets for AP Macroeconomics here. The post Want a Sample of My AP Economics Notes? Take a look at this freebie and see if you like it!

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Michelle Wood

JULY 7, 2021

New Notes for the Krugman Textbook I’m creating AP Economics (both Macro and Micro) notes for Krugman’s Economics for the AP Course Third Edition textbook. AP Economics Pacing Guides I’m working on pacing guides for both AP Macro and AP Micro. Notes will be published in my TPT store as I create them.

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Civics U

MARCH 24, 2022

Inflation is only one topic and dynamic of economics, along with matters such as deflation, employment and wages, housing availability and prices, subsidies, and tax levels. Nevertheless, a course in economics is not usually a requirement for high school graduation, nor for most college degrees. That it means higher prices is obvious.

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Hayward "Blah, Blah, Blah" Blog

AUGUST 30, 2017

Labeling and characterizing particular countries economic systems based on how they are organized to allocate societies scarce resources can be a tricky proposition. People tend to insert their own biases in assessing the label. Here is a simple presentation of the "facts".

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Steven V. Miller

JANUARY 18, 2023

Louis’ website for economic data (FRED). plot of chunk price-of-sugar-1960-2022](/images/index-economic-data-adjust-inflation/price-of-sugar-1960-2022-1.png) The most common and all-encompassing, however, is the consumer price index for all urban consumers. You can see it here , on the Federal Reserve Bank of St.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

If we don’t act now, working-class Americans will keep slipping economically. . We need to focus on investing more resources in designing innovative solutions that provide job skills for working-class adults, connecting these Americans to better economic opportunities. Related: Out of poverty, into the middle class.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The result is clear: Schools can serve as economic engines when directly engaged in developing the talent pipeline essential to local employers. If we emphasize career readiness within rigorous academic programs, we can help our students discover a future that ensures employability, while serving as an economic engine for our communities.

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Geography Education

APRIL 13, 2023

This article nicely outlined the economic and geographic appeal of Singapore that has made it an economic powerhouse. TAGS: Singapore , economic , SouthEast Asia.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2017

Home economics in failing districts: House Bill No. 195 would require all secondary schools located in D- and F-rated school districts to teach home economics to students, based on a curriculum that would be developed by the state Board of Education. Topics would include cooking, child development, sewing and budgeting.

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Geography Education

AUGUST 28, 2023

Both of these embedded videos are helpful introductions to the political , economic , demographic , and environmental aspects of these projects in the Middle East. While this isn’t expanding into the sea, it is a type of land reclamation project as they environment is modified to make the desert bloom.

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ACRE

APRIL 15, 2024

Marcus Witcher and covers the 1932 election, the transition of power from the Hoover to FDR administration, and early economic policies designed to combat the Great Depression. The lesson could be used as a precursor to a unit on the New Deal in history classrooms or as a case study on economic policy impacts in a social science course.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The post OPINION: The new lifelong learner — an education to match America’s economic needs appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Mark Dorman is the president of the international and professional divisions of McGraw-Hill Education.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

This large economic and racial divide between two adjacent districts in Michigan shows that school segregation persists in the 21st century. But some district pairs revealed far higher levels of economic segregation, like Frankenmuth and Saginaw, whose poverty rates differ by about 45 percentage points. Its poverty rate is 50 percent.

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Geography Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Growth and development are signs in the cultural landscape that show change in the economic landscape. As energy technology and local economics shifted, these mills no longer are used to serve their original purpose to manufacture light textiles. So too are decline and decay.

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Strange Maps

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Economics and religion. Maine has the highest median age of any state in the country: 45 years. That’s two years more than retiree magnet Florida and fully 13 years more than Utah, the state with the lowest median age (32 years). Why the big gap? Mormonism is Utah’s dominant religious tradition, which prizes community — and large families.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2024

“When you’re knocking on people’s doors and saying, ‘Hi, I’m a student from the University of Vermont,’ people would look at you a little perplexed at first,” said Kelly Hamshaw, a research lecturer in the university’s Department of Community Development and Applied Economics, who is working on the disaster resilience project.

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Geography Education

MARCH 15, 2024

Instead, many were once covered with colonial roads and farmsteads and food production was the primary local economic activity. New England’s wooded hills hold a secret—they weren’t always forested. Today we can use lidar to see remnants of this historical landscape by mapping stone walls and other features.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 31, 2024

The economic significance of shipbreaking means that national and international NGOs seeking to ban the industry in Bangladesh remain unpopular. Landless tenants and a low-income Hindu minority, they lack the social connections and economic leverage to have any political voice.

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Strange Maps

JANUARY 26, 2024

” The 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS for short) gives coastal states the right to claim an Exclusive Economic Zone (or EEZ) that extends 200 nautical miles from their shoreline. In contrast, countries only have economic jurisdiction over their EEZs. This is where coastal states have full sovereignty.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

It’s a threat to the nation’s global economic competitiveness and national security. The economic ramifications of this in the United States are twofold: first, on individuals’ job prospects and earnings potential; and second, on the country’s productivity and competitiveness. It calculated that had the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

These disparities stem, in part, from the fact that not all colleges, programs and majors are created equal when it comes to driving economic mobility. Thus, increasing access to our nation’s most selective institutions is one important factor in increasing Black students’ economic mobility.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Stacie Johnson Leader of Professional Development at Khan Academy Johnsrud: The World Economic Forum this past year reported that creative thinking is the number-one skill needed across industries globally in the next five years. EdSurge: Some people feel that being creative means being artistic and, therefore, claim to be “not creative.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

states have adopted laws or policies requiring personal finance education before students graduate from high school, bringing the total number to 30 states, according to the Council for Economic Education. Less than a quarter, or 24 percent, of millennials demonstrate basic financial literacy, according to the Council for Economic Education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2023

Over and over, we read news stories and research studies demonstrating that Black learners face huge barriers in attending and completing college and gaining a strong economic foothold. Some estimates, including one from Citi , find that the racial economic divide has cost our country $16 trillion over the last two decades.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2023

rose from 29th place to 28th place, still in the bottom half of economically advanced nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an international organization of 38 member countries that oversees the PISA exam. Neither India nor China, which topped the rankings in 2018 , participated in the 2022 PISA.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Unfortunately, the pandemic exacerbated this issue, with many students grappling with losing loved ones, economic instability and the social isolation imposed by remote learning. Sadly, what we discovered was not surprising.

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ED Surge

MAY 16, 2024

You think there might be an economic prompt, if nothing else, to maximize this experience, but it sounds like that's not the case for everybody? Certainly my background, where I came from, a lower-economic, rural farming community, I thought about the money that was invested and involved in the process of going to college.

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ED Surge

JUNE 9, 2022

But if the point of higher education is to buoy economic mobility, those lists that make headlines every year aren’t showing the whole picture. Meanwhile, she adds, the top 10 schools based on the economic mobility index enroll nearly 100,000 Pell recipients. It’s through this lens that things start to look different.

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