Ariel Tichnor-Wagner
Invest in Civic Education. If Not Now, When?
The first few weeks of 2021 have taught a seemingly ongoing collective civics lesson on key aspects of our unique constitutional federal republic: Running and certifying elections, the inner workings of the Electoral College, checks and balances between the three branches of the federal government, and the peaceful transfer of power, just to name a […]
Report Explores Civic Education in Massachusetts
Ariel Tichnor-Wagner, lecturer of educational leadership & policy studies at BU Wheelock, has joined with researchers from the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE) at Tufts University’s Tisch College of Civic Life to report on the current state of civic education in Massachusetts. “The State of Civic Education in Massachusetts: […]
How Can Schools Better Teach Civics?
Ariel Tichnor-Wagner is a lecturer in educational leadership & policy studies at Boston University Wheelock College of Education and Human Development. Her research focuses on education policy and politics, with an emphasis on policy and program implementation, continuous improvement research, school improvement, civics education, and global citizenship education. What are you focusing your research on […]
Ariel Tichnor-Wagner to Lead State Civics Education Evaluation
Massachusetts’ Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) has awarded a team led by Ariel Tichnor-Wagner, lecturer in BU Wheelock’s Educational Leadership & Policy Studies program, a contract to conduct research on and evaluation of the state of civics education in Massachusetts. Tichnor-Wagner will be the study’s primary investigator and will be working with a […]
BU Wheelock Welcomes New Faculty Members
BU Wheelock was joined this fall by several new faculty members. Davena Jackson Clinical Assistant Professor, English Education Davena Jackson joins BU Wheelock from Michigan State University, where she completed her PhD in Curriculum, Instruction & Teacher Education. Her dissertation is titled “Black Symmetry: Carving Out a Black Space in an Eleventh-Grade English Class.” Jackson’s […]