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Election 2020: eleven Ways to Engage Students From Now Until Nov

Predicting the unpredictable, adopting an event and other ideas for teaching and learning about the ballot.

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Published May 21, 2020 Updated October. xiii, 2020

Updated: Oct. 13, 2020

Though ballot news volition dominate the headlines throughout 2020, the global pandemic has impacted everything from how the candidates campaign to how the conventions work to the ways we'll vote in Nov.

Whether your students are in schoolhouse this autumn, learning at abode or experiencing some kind of hybrid, we have ideas for how they can get involved now and stay involved until November — and, peradventure, cope with feelings of helplessness during this crunch as they do.

A contempo Washington Mail service Opinion piece past 2 education professors argues that, right now, teenagers are learning "profound civics lessons" as they spotter Washington respond to the Covid-19 crunch. We don't have to convince them that what happens in politics affects their lives — they're seeing the evidence of that every day. As the essay puts it:

The coronavirus pandemic lays bare two major weaknesses in traditional approaches to teaching civics and history — what students are expected to larn and how we measure that learning. Too often, these subjects are taught as a avalanche of isolated facts disconnected from the realities young people confront daily.

The essay goes on to recommend approaches that encourage young people to "lean into the discrepancies they see between borough ideals and their civic realities." This summer, we'll exist working on a suite of ideas that nosotros hope can assist practise just that.

Equally we plan ahead, we invite you to share with us how you lot program to bring the election, and the issues at stake in November, into your own classroom. We'd too like to hear from yous how The Learning Network tin can help.

In the concurrently, hither are xi ways students can continue upwards with the candidates, campaigns, conventions and controversies, make their opinions heard, and have activity.

1. Keep Track of the Twists and Turns

Listen to 'The Daily': Biden's Campaign in Isolation

Joe Biden, the presumptive Autonomous nominee, is struggling to attain the same visibility as the president. But is that a expert matter?

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Mind to 'The Daily': Biden's Campaign in Isolation

Hosted by Michael Barbaro; produced by Alexandra Leigh Young and Eric Krupke; with help from Neena Pathak, Rachel Quester, Robert Jimison and Asthaa Chaturvedi; and edited by M.J. Davis Lin, Theo Balcomb and Lisa Tobin

Joe Biden, the presumptive Autonomous nominee, is struggling to achieve the aforementioned visibility as the president. But is that a skilful affair?

michael barbaro

From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is "The Daily."

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Today, Joe Biden is the get-go candidate in U.S. history to wage a presidential campaign in quarantine. Alex Burns on the strange new reality of the 2020 race. Information technology's Thursday, April xxx.

Alex, the last fourth dimension that we spoke with you lot, Joe Biden had just become the de facto Democratic nominee. Bernie Sanders dropped out of the race, and the pandemic was only actually beginning to wash over the Us. Now, of course, the coronavirus is very much here, and so I wonder if y'all could describe the state of the Biden campaign.

alex burns

Well, the land of the Biden entrada is super weird, which is a technical term.

michael barbaro

Of course.

alex burns

You know, since the last fourth dimension we spoke, Joe Biden has not held one public outcome in person every bit a candidate, and his campaign has been actually restricted to the telephone and to Zoom and FaceTime, like and so much of life for and then many Americans. He is candidature, he likes to say, from his basement, kind of as a joke, just it's true that he has a video uplink in a refurbished rec room in his enormous house in Delaware. Just he is basically unable to do almost any of the traditional activities of a presumptive candidate. There was no unity rally with his defeated chief opponents, and in that location are certainly no in-person fundraisers.

michael barbaro

So what does the virtual element of this campaign actually look like, the office where he'due south on Zoom in his basement with all those books behind him?

alex burns

Right. It's kind of a piece of work in progress.

archived recording (joe biden): Look, folks, I desire to say practiced evening, and thank you for taking the time to speak with me.

alex burns

So they've tried a bunch of different formats.

archived recording: We're going to accept a question now from Maureen Jenkins. Maureen, you are unmuted.
archived recording (joe biden): Maureen, are you lot at that place?

alex burns

They have washed what they telephone call virtual rope lines, where Biden gets on his video stream and talks to a succession of voters the way he would if he were greeting them at the end of an event.

archived recording: Good evening, Mr. President, and that has such a nice ring to it.

alex burns

Except it didn't quite work that fashion, because on an actual rope line, you talk to a voter for, yous know, maybe 10 or fifteen seconds, a minute if information technology's a actually important conversation.

archived recording: Do you support the Endangered Species Act?

alex burns

His get-go virtual rope line, I spoke to one of the voters who was on information technology. Voters said that it went for more than an 60 minutes, right?

michael barbaro

What?

alex burns

So this is not — yep, exactly. These became very involved conversations.

archived recording: And will you prohibit animals from being hunted and brought into this country for trophies?
archived recording (joe biden): Yes and yes.
archived recording: Oh, I honey you.
archived recording (joe biden): But look, I want to say something beyond that. One of the things that I —

michael barbaro

Correct. The whole point of a rope line, as I've observed them, is that the minute you bump into someone you don't desire to talk to, you literally merely turn your head and you are done with them.

alex burns

Right.

michael barbaro

And hither, information technology feels like y'all would exist locked into a Zoom chat with somebody and information technology would be hard to get out of information technology.

alex burns

That's right.

archived recording (joe biden): There's a lot more to say, but I've already probably said too much to you.
archived recording: Thank you to everybody for joining. You know, we appreciate this, and we do apologize for the technical difficulties that nosotros had.

alex burns

The entrada has tried other formats. Virtual town halls. He has held virtual endorsement events.

archived recording (joe biden): My friend, Senator Bernie Sanders. Bernie, welcome.
archived recording (bernie sanders): Joe thank you very much for your remarks, and cheers for welcoming me to your livestream, here.

alex burns

At that place is definitely a stilted and sometimes artificial quality to these events.

archived recording (bernie sanders): I'm asking every contained, I'yard asking a lot of Republicans, to come up together in this campaign to back up your candidacy, which I endorse.

alex burns

Getting Bernie Sanders's endorsement, y'all concluded up with these two guys pushing 80 on a livestream talking to each other, and at that place is something about information technology that — you know, it doesn't have the same kind of emotional boot that a unity rally would, for instance.

archived recording (joe biden): I'm looking forward to working with you lot, pal. I really, genuinely hateful it from the bottom my middle. Thank yous for being such a admirer. Cheers for existence and then generous, and I give you lot my word, I'll endeavor my best not to allow you all down.
archived recording (bernie sanders): Cheers very much, Joe.
archived recording (joe biden): Thank you, pal.
archived recording (bernie sanders): Say hello to —
archived recording (joe biden): I will.
archived recording (bernie sanders): Jane and I say hello to Jill, every bit well.
archived recording (joe biden): I volition.

alex burns

He has started a podcast —

archived recording (joe biden): Well hey, folks, this is Joe Biden, and we're listening to "Here's the Deal," and I'm sitting here in Wilmington, Delaware, in my basement. I'm excited to bring y'all our next podcast episode.

alex burns

— where he does these, I think, rather charming interviews with other prominent Democrats —

archived recording (joe biden): On the testify with me today is a groovy friend and a really incredible governor, Governor Jay Inslee. Yous know, the coronavirus —

alex burns

— where they talk in a fairly unstructured-seeming way nigh just sort of what's on their minds, what their lockdown experience has been.

archived recording (jay inslee): Mr. Vice President, you expect like a meg bucks. That basement or wherever you are is working pretty well.
archived recording (joe biden): Well, I tell yous what, I'yard living downwards here. I never thought it'd plough into a quasi-studio.

alex burns

What sort of their big policy agendas are and their ideas are.

michael barbaro

Hmm.

archived recording (joe biden): What lessons can the American people acquire from this pandemic to assistance ensure we motility quickly to address climate change before it's too belatedly, or is there a connection? Are there lessons learned?
archived recording (jay inslee): Oh yes, large connectedness. You lot know, you could recollect of Covid-xix every bit a metaphor for the — information technology's kind of a fast-interim climate change.

michael barbaro

Alex, do you take the sense that the virtual components of this campaign that have been cobbled together — the podcast, the town halls, the rope line — practise you sense that any of these are really breaking through and that the voting public is actually consuming them?

alex burns

You know, I think they have done some things that have broken through.

archived recording: Every bit yous know, the coronavirus has hit Milwaukee especially difficult. What specific steps would y'all take to accost this crisis?
archived recording (joe biden): Well, number one, you may think —

alex burns

He has begun doing local TV hits in swing states, in markets like Milwaukee and Detroit and Pittsburgh.

michael barbaro

Interesting.

archived recording: When you think of Pittsburgh, what practice you recollect of?
archived recording (joe biden): I spent a lot of time in Pittsburgh, too, as you probably know. As I said, they're the people I grew up with. They're the middle class, working class folks who bosom their neck, you know —

alex burns

And that is an of import way to arrive front of people, especially at a time when and so many people are staying at home and watching boob tube all day.

archived recording: Good morn, everyone. We're coming on the air to bring you alive coverage of today's White Firm conference on the coronavirus pandemic. Here is the president.
archived recording (donald trump): Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you lot very much.

michael barbaro

And in that sense, it feels similar fundamentally not quite an even playing field when you think about his opponent, the incumbent president of the The states. Because incumbency has e'er carried massive advantages for publicity, right, and commanding the spotlight. Merely here, we have an incumbent in the centre of a national crisis with daily news briefings.

archived recording (donald trump): While we mourn the tragic loss of life, and you lot can't mourn it any stronger than we're mourning it, the United States has produced dramatically better health outcomes than any other country with a possible exception of Germany, and I think we're as skillful, or better.

michael barbaro

And on the other side is Joe Biden at habitation in isolation, trying to get on TV or do an online event.

alex burns

Correct. Y'all know, Donald Trump is also stuck at home doing video and goggle box appearances from his residence, merely his residence is the White House, and he's the incumbent president.

michael barbaro

Right.

alex burns

And that commands a unlike level of public attending. And this is something in the class of our reporting on, you know, Biden'due south life in lockdown, is that he has been frustrated with not so much the differential betwixt the attention he gets and the attention Trump gets, but with the criticism he has gotten for beingness so much less visible than the president. Because I think the view among people close to Biden is, you lot just tin can't put yourself on an equal footing with the president in a national crunch when yous're not immune to leave your house.

michael barbaro

Right. And that frustration, I imagine, reflects a fear that this crisis is but going to brand it much harder for Joe Biden to win.

alex burns

You know, I'm non sure that that's exactly right.

michael barbaro

Hm.

alex burns

I think the view in the Biden army camp, and I think increasingly the view as well among a lot of senior Republicans, is that the huge differential in media exposure in the president'southward favor is maybe non working so much in the president's favor.

archived recording (donald trump): So supposing we hit the body with a tremendous — whether it's ultraviolet or simply very powerful low-cal — and I recall yous said that hasn't been checked, just you lot're going to examination information technology.

alex burns

He is out there, yes, getting tons of eyeballs on him every single twenty-four hour period, simply his numbers have steadily fallen, not merely overall in terms of where he is in the ballot, only in how the public feels about his handling of the crisis.

archived recording (donald trump): Right. And so I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute, ane minute, and is there a way we can exercise something like that?

alex burns

A lot of people are looking at him very closely. They don't really seem to like what they see. On the other mitt, people are paying far less attention to Joe Biden, merely let'southward think back on the Joe Biden who we knew during the Autonomous primaries, who was non exactly mister well-baked, clean, and confident when information technology came to delivering a public message every unmarried day out on the campaign trail.

archived recording (joe biden): Poor kids are just as bright and but equally talented as white kids — wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids. [APPLAUSE] I really mean it, but think how we call up about information technology.

michael barbaro

Right. There were a lot of gaffes. In that location were a lot of missteps, a lot of misspoken words and thoughts.

alex burns

Right. There were arguments with voters.

archived recording: You're selling access to the president just similar he is.
archived recording (joe biden): You're a damn liar, man. That's not true, and no one has ever said that, no ane has proved that.
archived recording: The hell it ain't. I meet it on the —

alex burns

This is not a candidate with a really flawless performance equally a public campaigner, so there is a trade-off here. And correct now, I call back on residuum, it seems to be working for Biden to be this largely unseen figure who people basically have a favorable impression of. So to have him more offstage at a moment when the president is struggling at least creates the possibility that he continues to gain relative political strength by and large by default.

michael barbaro

So at that place is a version of this where Joe Biden meaningfully benefits from existence the candidate of isolation.

alex burns

Yes, and that is the scenario that we are living in right now.

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michael barbaro

We'll be right dorsum.

And so Alex, you lot have but described what the Biden candidacy looks like in isolation. I desire to plough to the broader campaign. What does that offset to look like under these very foreign circumstances?

alex burns

You know, I don't think anybody knows the respond to that for certain, just I think that what we can say today, with half a year left in this entrada, is that it is going to be a shadow of the kind of presidential entrada that nosotros are used to.

michael barbaro

Hm.

alex burns

We don't know whether either of these candidates will e'er hold a conventional campaign rally again.

michael barbaro

Wow.

alex burns

Nosotros however don't know whether either party will hold any semblance of a national convention, and these are restrictions driven by a public health catastrophe with a very, very uncertain trajectory ahead of us.

michael barbaro

It's really hard to imagine presidential campaigns without conventions. Nosotros've both attended these conventions, and they are these actually important moments in a campaign, right? I mean, in many means, a candidate is introduced to the country — their biography, their story. In that location are the slickly produced videos, family members come out. Yous know, elaborate tributes are made, and without those, kind of, when does the general election really even kick off?

alex burns

Well, that's the large question. I retrieve right now, if one of the parties is going to forge ahead with a convention, information technology will clearly exist the Republicans. The president has said to exist very determined to hold a convention —

michael barbaro

Interesting.

alex burns

— in Charlotte, only he is a prisoner to circumstance and public health as much every bit anybody hither. Biden has gone much further in suggesting that it may demand to be some kind of virtual convention, and it's difficult to imagine a virtual convention getting the same kind of attending every bit the spectacle that you just described.

michael barbaro

Mm-hm.

alex burns

And if yous are deprived of that opportunity, y'all know, non just to innovate yourself to the land, but to innovate yourself to the land with your running mate, and your ideas, and your general election slogan and bulletin, it is a much, much bigger challenge of political stagecraft to make it actually count the mode I think both campaigns would actually like it to this twelvemonth.

michael barbaro

Well, so I'1000 curious whether we finish upwards having annihilation resembling a normal convention or not. How are you seeing the pandemic start to influence the kind of visions that both of these candidates are going to exist running on in the side by side few months?

alex burns

I don't recall that I tin recall another presidential campaign where the two parties' eventual nominees stop up having to motility and so far away from the message that they prepare out to evangelize at the beginning of the entrada.

michael barbaro

What do you mean?

alex burns

Wait, President Trump came into this election season expecting to run on four more than years of peace and prosperity, and a booming stock market place, and economical growth. That is obviously non a feasible message at this bespeak. Joe Biden entered the presidential race with, essentially, a message of returning to normalcy, where, "You all remember what the Obama years were like, and nosotros can exercise, you know, more than of that." That also seems like a pretty defunct message nether current conditions.

michael barbaro

Right. Well, what is information technology starting to mean for those two kind of assumed visions for the campaign? I mean, what are you seeing Joe Biden do to pivot abroad from the, "I desire to render to normal" considering there kind of is no normal anymore, and what are you seeing from President Trump, who wanted to entrada on a record stock market and economic expansion?

alex burns

It is a huge question marker for both of them even at this point, and I think the eventual answers are going to be heavily driven by the external realities of the entrada. If President Trump winds up in a position next fall to make the instance that, you know, y'all are seeing the dark-green shoots of an economic recovery, then that volition be his message. If he doesn't take that, I think information technology'due south really hard to encounter what kind of positive, frontward-looking message he tin deliver. What nosotros have seen from his campaign the last few weeks is a combination of attacking congressional Democrats —

archived recording (donald trump): They desire to make Trump look as bad as they can, because they want to endeavour and win an election that they shouldn't be immune to win.

alex burns

— for beingness very liberal and not existence cooperative enough with him, and attacking Joe Biden personally.

archived recording (donald trump): We have a sleepy guy in a basement of a firm that the press is giving a free pass to who doesn't want to do debates considering of Covid.

alex burns

And then, you lot have seen the president at a number of points revive the crimson meat issue of clearing every bit sort of a stimulus to his political base.

archived recording (donald trump): By pausing clearing, we volition assist put unemployed Americans first in line for jobs equally America reopens. So important.

alex burns

I don't know that that adds up to a cohesive message nigh, "Expect at all the things I accomplished. Here are all the things I volition accomplish for yous with the second term." I think the closest we heard President Trump get to that kind of message was when he said, somewhat off the cuff, in one of his briefings a few weeks back that nosotros congenital the greatest economy in the world.

archived recording (donald trump): I'll do information technology a 2d time.

alex burns

We'll do it again.

archived recording (donald trump)

So I'chiliad very proud of this country, I have to say. I'thousand very proud to be your president, and I'm very proud of this country. Thank you very much everybody.

[APPLAUSE]

michael barbaro

OK. And so that's Trump. What about Biden?

archived recording (joe biden): Yous and I, and anybody who gets re-elected or elected in November, is going to face up a circumstance nationally and internationally that hasn't been seen for a long, long time.

alex burns

Biden has increasingly begun to talk about the adjacent presidency not as a return to normalcy kind of event —

archived recording (joe biden): A whole range of things are going to be, I think, as difficult every bit they were when Franklin Roosevelt got elected.

alex burns

— but every bit really a national emergency presidency.

archived recording (joe biden): I think we have an opportunity to plough, generating a fundamentally green infrastructure, and turning it around in a style that can be the very thing that helps us get through this existential threat to our economy.

alex burns

He has talked most doing much more than in terms of investing in economic stimulus, income back up, business rescues, infrastructure spending. Nosotros only haven't seen it all come together in some kind of large, "Joe Biden's National Rescue Plan." This is what the Joe Biden version of a 21st century New Deal would look like. I tin can't tell you lot that, from my ain reporting on the Biden campaign, they are moving in that direction. They are having those conversations, and I recall it is generally the view, not merely in the Biden camp, but amongst Democrats more broadly. That the party needs to offer something much bigger than the Joe Biden main season agenda, an calendar that many Democrats found totally worthy based on the conditions they knew about in February, but that doesn't match the severity of the moment today.

archived recording (joe biden): I pray to God this is one of those moments where we move beyond where we were, not simply back to where we were.

michael barbaro

Alex, I want to turn at present to the land of the race, Trump versus Biden. What exactly are polls telling u.s.a. at this point, with the enormous caveat that it'due south six months before election day?

alex burns

Well, with that enormous caveat, the movie is quite articulate at this signal that Biden has an early on upper hand over the president.

michael barbaro

Hm.

alex burns

In terms of the caput-to-caput betwixt the two of them, Biden has an advantage of some size in basically everything that we consider this year a swing state.

michael barbaro

And when you mention swing states, which ones?

alex burns

Well, at that place are the big 3 from 2016, the historically Democratic Midwestern states that flipped to Trump'south column and delivered him the presidency: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin. As of today, Republicans feel very pessimistic almost Michigan, somewhat less pessimistic but still pretty pessimistic almost Pennsylvania, and they see Wisconsin as a real nail biter, a place where Biden probably has a sliver of an advantage, but you know, not a country that has swung back to the Democrats decisively past any means. The shortest path for whatsoever Democrat to 270 electoral college votes is winning those 3 states, and belongings the rest of the states that Hillary Clinton won.

michael barbaro

And then at this point, Biden has real electoral advantages, merely Alex, doesn't a president in accuse in the middle of a national crisis virtually by definition do good politically from the spotlight? From people rallying around the flag, even if he is seen to be screwing up?

alex burns

The short respond is yep, and nosotros did see that initially with President Trump. Not in a really pronounced fashion, only at the terminate of March, the middle of March, he was a couple points higher in the polls than he had been previously.

michael barbaro

Mm-hm.

alex burns

There is a precedent for a president initially getting a political bounce in a national crisis, and and then watching information technology fade rapidly and disastrously for his own re-election every bit it becomes clearly he has mismanaged the crunch. That's Jimmy Carter. It all started with the Iranian earnest crisis, when Islamic republic of iran seized the American embassy, took American hostages. There was a rally effectually the flag event for Jimmy Carter equally he got kind of that aureola of, not exactly a wartime president, simply a crisis president. And every bit the crisis dragged on and on, and as the president seemed more than and more impotent to resolve it, it really doomed him politically.

michael barbaro

Right. And Carter would keep to lose to Ronald Reagan, and he would become a one-term president considering of that crunch.

alex burns

That'south correct. And that was an ballot that was really but near one thing, and that was the country's perception that the president was weak.

michael barbaro

Correct.

alex burns

I think for those of united states of america who are covering this election, we can't say today that that is how voters volition make upward their listen in November. Something could come up that changes the entire framing of the race for either candidate. Accept the allegation of sexual assail past a onetime Biden aide, which he denies, only that could get traction. Progressives in the Democratic Political party take already pushed him to address the allegation. He has so far been silent on the matter. Simply we practice have to contemplate the possibility that this election is ultimately but about one affair, and that's the pandemic, and what voters retrieve of the president'south part in marshaling a authorities response. And if the weather that exist today exist in the fall, that is a very, very hard campaign for the president to win. And if those conditions change very substantially, then maybe Trump has a take a chance to run some version of the campaign he was hoping to run in the first place. Simply all of that is contingent not on the choices the candidates make and non on the tactics and strategy of the campaigns, but on this overwhelming external event that none of them is in a position to command.

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michael barbaro

In other words, it becomes up to the virus.

alex burns

[LAUGHS] That'southward a very night way to put it, but I think that's basically true.

michael barbaro

Well, Alex, cheers very much.

alex burns

Thank you.

michael barbaro

The Times reports that President Trump has become increasingly frustrated with polling that shows him trailing behind Joe Biden in crucial swing states, and that last week, he berated his campaign manager, Brad Parscale, over the situation. During a phone telephone call, the president insisted that the polling was incorrect, blamed Parscale for his poor standing, and threatened to sue Parscale. It was unclear if the threat was serious.

We'll be right back.

Here's what else you demand to know today. A large-scale clinical trial sponsored past the U.South. regime has shown that handling with an experimental antiviral drug, remdesivir, tin speed recovery from the coronavirus.

archived recording: The data shows that remdesivir has a clear-cut, significant, positive consequence in diminishing the fourth dimension to recovery. This is really quite of import for a number of reasons.

michael barbaro

The trial found that the recovery time for patients using the drug was 11 days, compared with 15 days for those who did not receive the drug.

archived recording: Although a 31 percent improvement doesn't seem like a knockout, hundred percentage, it is a very of import proof of concept, because what it has proven is that a drug can block this virus.

michael barbaro

As a effect, President Trump said that the drug is likely to receive emergency approval from the Nutrient and Drug Assistants and become the first federally-canonical treatment for Covid-19.

archived recording (donald trump): We want everything to be safety, but we practice — we would like to see very quick approvals, especially with things that piece of work.

michael barbaro

That'southward it for "The Daily." I'thou Michael Barbaro. Run across y'all tomorrow.

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two. React to What You Read

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Back in the summer of 2016, we called that year "one of the most unpredictable election seasons in modern retentivity." Little did we know and so how much uncertainty a global pandemic could add together.

What will the coronavirus mean for 2020? How will we vote? Will the election be postponed? Volition President Trump's response brand him a one-term president — or earn him some other four years?

In "Covid-19 Is Twisting 2020 Beyond All Recognition," Thomas B. Edsall, an Stance columnist, writes:

Crises can provoke extreme responses. The 2008-9 recession produced both Barack Obama and the Tea Party. On a grander scale, the Great Depression produced both Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler.

No 1 is suggesting that the country is at such a point now, only, and so again, no ane suggested in January of 2015 that the country was on the verge of electing Donald Trump president.

The electric current pandemic shows signs of reshaping the American political and social order for years to come up.

Make five to 10 predictions most what you think will happen before Election 2020 is over, and post or save them somewhere — perhaps challenging your friends or classmates to do the same. And so follow the news to meet how close y'all come up, and clarify what you lot got right and wrong.

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4. Effigy Out Where You Stand

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6. Go to Know the Candidates

Your first step: the candidates' ain websites:

Joe Biden

Donald Trump

Your second: the Times candidate pages for each:

Joe Biden

Donald Trump

For a side-past-side comparing of their statements and stances on central problems, check out ProCon.

But in the midst of this pandemic, voters are non only looking for someone whose positions they back up, but also someone who tin atomic number 82 us through this crisis. Saharsh Satheesh, a student from Collierville High School in Tennessee, wrote this in response to our Educatee Stance question "What Makes a Keen Leader?":

A good leader isn't just someone who tells people what to do; they take to ready an example themselves and quite literally "lead" the people down the correct path. They must be upstanding and a good part-model. We need effective leaders now more than ever to be an case to everyone around them.

Practice you concur? What qualities do you recall our next president should have? Why? Exercise either of the candidates demonstrate these qualities? Share your thoughts on our question, which will be open for comment all summer.

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7. Sentry the Conventions

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Updated, Aug., 2020

Covid-19 has upended both the The Autonomous and Repubican National Conventions, simply both parties may be facing an fifty-fifty more than fundamental question, one that was playing out before the pandemic: What role exercise conventions have in elections today?

In "Both Parties Wonder: How Much Do Conventions Fifty-fifty Matter Anymore?," Adam Nagourney and Matt Flegenheimer write:

For all the organizing, money, fourth dimension and energy poured into a four-24-hour interval caricature of parties, speeches, forums, lobbying and networking, there is a potent argument that they have go amidst the less consequential events on the political calendar.

Yes, candidates get their prime-time perch to speak to the nation. Party delegates debate obscure bylaws and corroborate a platform that is likely to be forgotten the moment the last gavel is dropped. The events can provide a elevator in the polls, just at that place is no shortage of convention nominees, John McCain and Michael S. Dukakis amid them, who tin can attest to just how ephemeral that boost is.

For all the talk of brokered conventions, it has been a long time since delegates had anything more to do than ratify a presidential candidate selected by primary voters and a running mate chosen past the nominee. Equally the drama has slipped abroad, so have the television networks, systematically cutting dorsum on the hours of prime-time coverage devoted to events that have become niggling more than than scripted advertisements.

When we get-go published this mail, back in May, we posted the post-obit questions:

How much exercise you call back conventions matter today? Are they an of import marker for the beginning of the general election, for introducing the candidates to the public, for demonstrating political party unity? Or have they lost their value as the rules of politics have inverse, particularly over the terminal four years? How practise yous recollect the parties should adapt them this summer, both to answer to the pandemic and to be equally relevant as possible to 2020 voters?

Every bit we update this mail, the Autonomous National Convention has just ended its third night of virtual programming. If y'all watched it live, or read about the highlights, how would you answer those questions now? Do you agree with Op-Ed columnist Charles Blow that this "convention without convening" has succeeded, and that, perhaps, some elements of information technology should be kept even when party gatherings can be live again?

The Republican National Convention will take place get-go Aug. 24., and The Times volition cover it live. Once you take watched some of both conventions, depict some conclusions: in general, what worked and what didn't? If you were in charge of programming in order to engage more people your age as viewers, what would you add, subtract or do differently? Why?

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eight. Monitor the Messaging — and Misinformation

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What are the candidates and campaigns proverb? How much of information technology is true? What platforms and mediums are they using? What letters take worked? What missteps have they made?

You lot can keep track of political advertising via this page or subscribe to the On Politics With Lisa Lerer newsletter to see the "Ad of the Week" analysis, similar this 1.

While candidates have traditionally relied on Telly commercials to get their message out, today'due south campaigns are taking place largely online. Read more about each party's strategy in this 2019 analysis, "Trump Campaign Floods Web With Ads, Raking In Greenbacks as Democrats Struggle," in which Matthew Rosenberg and Kevin Roose write:

While the Trump campaign has put its digital operation firmly at the center of the president'southward re-election endeavour, Democrats are struggling to internalize the lessons of the 2016 race and suit to a political landscape shaped past social media.

So, clarify the messages coming from the candidates, campaigns and parties using the post-obit questions as a guide:

Draw this message. What exercise y'all see and hear? How practise yous engage with it?
Where did you run into this message? Why do you recollect the creators chose this platform? Is there a risk your information volition be collected from engaging with it?
Who is the target audience? How do you know?
Who sponsored this advert? What party or organizations are they affiliated with?
What persuasive techniques does the message utilise to connect with viewers?
What are the creators trying to become you to think and experience? What emotions are they playing on?
Over all, practice you recall this ad is effective? Why or why non?

But, as we saw in the 2016 election, we need to exist extra conscientious of hoaxes, fake news and misinformation. If you lot see something dubious in a political message, exercise these adept media literacy habits:

First, read laterally to evaluate the source of the information you lot're viewing.
Then you might fact-check the message's claims using a fact checker like FactCheck.org or Snopes.com.
Observe propaganda techniques, such every bit proper noun-calling, "glittering generalities" or logical fallacies.
Read the "Nearly Us" section to detect out more near the creators of the content you're viewing.
Watch out for your own confirmation or disconfirmation bias when you come up beyond claims that either reinforce or challenge your existing beliefs.

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nine. Volunteer — Virtually

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Credit... Rawan Saleh

Update: Aug., 2020

We had previously announced this as a photograph contest, but in the intervening months we've decided to go much bigger. Nosotros are at present running a multimedia contest called "Coming of Age in 2020" that invites you to evidence or tell us, via writing or images, video or sound, virtually what yous have experienced during this tumultuous year.

While these submissions don't specifically have to focus on politics, we suspect that as students react to the pandemic, the protests for racial justice, and the coming election, many of them volition. You can notice details linked hither.

Keep in heed that what you create tin can, of course, be quite small, local or personal — for example, pandemic journal entries, or photos taken in your home, neighborhood or community — as long as what you submit touches on the larger thing of the teenage experience of living through these historic times.

I expert example of how a theme can be interpreted in many ways can be seen in the results of our 2018 and 2019 claiming to teenagers to clarify media and adult stereotypes virtually their generation, then take photos to counter them. In her artist's statement virtually the photo in a higher place, a 2018 winner, Rawan Saleh, wrote:

I'chiliad a lot of things, I'k as well American.

In this terrible moment, all I want is to be a plain old American teenager. Who can only mourn without fright. Who doesn't share last names with a suicide bomber. Who goes to dances and can talk to her parents nigh anything and tin walk around without always beingness anxious. And who isn't a presumed terrorist offset and an American second.

Simply that'due south just one answer to the challenge. To get inspired, bank check out the piece of work of the other student winners of our 2018 and 2019 contests to see how many different artistic ways participants institute to respond to that same prompt. Then showtime thinking about how you'll respond to our 2020 contest, whether via photos, essays, videos, audio, analogy, comics, political cartoons, or annihilation else you can digitally upload to prove united states.

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xi. Ask the Big Questions

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Credit... Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Lisa Sheehan

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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/learning/election-2020-11-ways-to-engage-students-from-now-until-november.html

See You in the Next Election When We Become Relevant Again

Election 2020: eleven Ways to Engage Students From Now Until Nov

1. Keep Track of the Twists and Turns

Listen to 'The Daily': Biden's Campaign in Isolation

Mind to 'The Daily': Biden's Campaign in Isolation

Hosted by Michael Barbaro; produced by Alexandra Leigh Young and Eric Krupke; with help from Neena Pathak, Rachel Quester, Robert Jimison and Asthaa Chaturvedi; and edited by M.J. Davis Lin, Theo Balcomb and Lisa Tobin

Joe Biden, the presumptive Autonomous nominee, is struggling to achieve the aforementioned visibility as the president. But is that a skilful affair?

two. React to What You Read

4. Effigy Out Where You Stand

6. Go to Know the Candidates

7. Sentry the Conventions

Highlights From the Democratic National Convention: Dark 3

Kamala Harris made history in accepting her official nomination for the vice presidency: She became the first woman of color to join a major political party's national ticket.

eight. Monitor the Messaging — and Misinformation

nine. Volunteer — Virtually

xi. Ask the Big Questions

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