Sparking Equity
Sparking Equity brings to you the most creative thinking and best strategies for ensuring that all students succeed, with a focus on low-income students and students of color.
Join hosts Pedro Noguera and Lande Ajose as they explore key issues such as restoring arts and music education in schools, how to engage parents in their children’s education in a positive way, coping with mental health challenges on college campuses, and what's next on the student loan relief battleground. Executive producer and correspondent for Sparking Equity is veteran education journalist Louis Freedberg, director of the Advancing Education Success Initiative.
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Sparking Equity
Rethinking Civics Education
The youngest voters in the U.S. have historically turned out in lower numbers than any other age group. And unfortunately analyses of the Nov. 5 elections suggest that they turned out in lower numbers than in the 2020 elections.
One reason that many educators point to i that traditional civics and American government classes typically fail to engage young people in the democratic process. That is especially the case for students of color and low-income students.
However, exciting new approaches to civics education are emerging. One of them is "action civics," where students take the lead in organizing and implementing projects in their own communities as part of a civics curriculum.
In this episode our host Pedro Noguera, Dean of the USC Rossier School of Education, with Louis Freedberg, Interim CEO of EdSource, interview Rob Filback and Jen Crawford, founders of USC's Democracy Project about these and other promising approaches. Also on the podcast is Robert Medrano, a project director at Teach Democracy who has taught social studies for years.
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Brought to you by the Advancing Education Success Initiative -- Coby McDonald, Producer; Louis Freedberg, Executive Producer and Correspondent
