“Raising the Stakes: Teaching the Issues to Engage (Disengaged) Students”

Hosted by Candis Watts Smith and Amber Boydstun on October 16th, 2026

Students studying American government often question how the material relates to their own lives and can sometimes feel disconnected from politics altogether. But, students do care about the issues that impact them–student loan debt, AI regulation, gun rights, affordable housing. The new edition of American Politics Today uses these issues to illustrate the relevancy of studying American government.

Join new co-authors Candis Watts Smith and Amber Boydstun for a conversation on how you can use this approach in your classroom. They will discuss how they identified the issues that were most important to students using reputable data sources, and how you can draw connections between these pressing issues and key topics in the course. 

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