Education On The Line
Education On The Line (formerly titled Sparking Equity) is a podcast focusing on the mounting political, financial, legal and ideological threats to public education. It will provide strategies to help education leaders and decisionmakers traverse the current perilous education landscape.
Join media innovator and veteran education journalist Louis Freedberg as he interviews school leaders about how they are coping with attacks on public schools emanating from Washington D.C. -- while staying focused on how to ensure that all students succeed.
The advisor for the podcast (and occasional guest host) is Pedro Noguera, Dean of the USC Rossier School of Education.
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Education On The Line
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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