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Knoester, Matthew; Gichiru, Wangari P. – Journal of International Social Studies, 2014
The University of Evansville, like many universities, requires a seminar for all incoming first-year students to prepare students for college-level writing, along with the reading and discussion of challenging texts. Often, these courses share particular books to allow in-coming students to share a "common experience." This article…
Descriptors: Democracy, First Year Seminars, Social Studies, Foreign Countries
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Root, Rob – Democracy & Education, 2009
Concern in the United States for adequate public school education in mathematics dates back at least to the response to Sputnik in 1957, but at that time focused on preparing a cadre of students for quantitatively demanding careers in science and engineering. More recently, however, there has been increasing appreciation of the value of broadly…
Descriptors: First Year Seminars, Course Content, Numeracy, Citizen Participation