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Telling Fact From Fiction and Other Challenges in Enacting High-Quality Civic Education

Sat, April 14, 8:15 to 9:45am, New York Marriott Marquis, Floor: Seventh Floor, Chelsea/Gotham Room

Session Type: Symposium

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This symposium’s papers address a set of contemporary challenges related to doing high-quality civic education in an extraordinarily partisan political era. As the Common Core and other reform initiatives have promoted higher-order reasoning, promulgated use of various forms of evidence to build arguments across disciplinary domains, and encouraged interactive approaches such as deliberation, discussion, shared inquiry, and action civics, the challenges of enacting and assessing these activities are multiple, both for students and teachers. in today’s highly charged classrooms, like their counterparts in the body politic, students often cannot even agree on what differentiates fact from fiction. This symposium provides fresh research-based insights into ways of thinking about these contemporary dilemmas and offers various responses for teachers and teacher educators.

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