{"id":14849,"date":"2015-02-05T13:04:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T18:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=14849"},"modified":"2015-02-05T13:06:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T18:06:35","slug":"civic-education-deeper-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=14849","title":{"rendered":"civic education and deeper learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jff.org\/publications\/civic-education-and-deeper-learning\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/jff.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/publication_thumbnail\/public\/publications\/logo\/SATC-Civic-Education-and-Deeper-Learning.jpeg?itok=0CcEW_OH\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a>Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jff.org\/\">Jobs for the Future <\/a>(JFF) a national nonprofit that advocates for all youth to gain the skills they need to succeed in the economy, releases a paper entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/jff.org\/publications\/civic-education-and-deeper-learning\">Civic Education and Deeper Learning&#8221;<\/a> by me and CIRCLE Deputy Director Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg. This paper was funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation as part of its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hewlett.org\/programs\/education\/deeper-learning\">Deeper Learning Initiative<\/a>. It was discussed at a Harvard Graduate School of Education event: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/cmei-harvard.ning.com\/events\/more-than-college-readiness-engaging-students-in-work-and-civic-l\">More than College Readiness: Engaging Students in Work and Civic Life<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Hewlett Deeper Learning initiative envisions k-12 students \u201cusing their knowledge and skills in a way that prepares them for real life.\u201d When deeper lear`ning occurs, students \u201care mastering core academic content, like reading, writing, math, and science, while learning how to think critically, collaborate, communicate effectively, direct their own learning, and believe in themselves (known as an \u2018academic mindset\u2019).\u201d Deeper Learning should occur in all disciplines and should encourage interdisciplinary learning.<\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;Civic Education and Deeper Learning,&#8221; we argue that k-12 civic education must be strengthened to meet these goals. The best civic education exemplifies deeper learning, but many students receive more superficial and less interactive forms of civics. For its part, the deeper learning agenda must encompass civic education, because among the topics that students must learn to think critically about, discuss, and collaborate on are social and political issues.<\/p>\n<p>We argue that aligning civic education with deeper learning points the way to pedagogical, curricular, and policy innovations that will be overlooked if we think of civic education as merely the acquisition of basic facts about the political system\u2014the view that seems to drive such policies as <a href=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=14810\">requiring students to pass multiple-choice civics tests<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Jobs for the Future (JFF) a national nonprofit that advocates for all youth to gain the skills they need to succeed in the economy, releases a paper entitled &#8220;Civic Education and Deeper Learning&#8221; by me and CIRCLE Deputy Director Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg. This paper was funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation as part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocating-civic-education","category-education-policy","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14858,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14849\/revisions\/14858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}