Ken Wedding '67
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Ken Wedding, class of 1967, was a Government and International Relations major. He earned a Master of Arts in Teaching at Northewestern University, and taught high school social studies at Hopkins High School in Hopkins, Minnesota for 34 years, retiring in 2002.
Since 1992, he has been a consultant to the College Board for the teaching of Advanced Placement Government and Politics. Between 2002 and 2010, he taught workshops across the country and at the Carleton Summer Teaching Institute. He was an adjunct instructor in the Anthropology Department at Hamline University.
In May of 2006, he started "teaching comparative," a blog offering ideas and materials to teachers of comparative government and politics. In 2007, he started a blog, "studying comparative," intended to help students prepare for the AP exam and a "sharing comparative" group to help AP teachers exchange teaching ideas.
His first book, The Quick Guide to the Internet for Political Science, was published by Allyn & Bacon in 1999. He has written five versions of the Instructors' Manual forComparative Politics: Domestic Responses to Global Challenges (Charles Hauss, Wadsworth Cengage). In 2003, he wrote and published The AP Comparative Government and Politics Examination: What You Need to Know (College City Publications). In October of 2005, his book of teaching plans for AP Comparative Government and Politics was published by The Center for Learning, a non-profit publisher in Cleveland, Ohio.
Ken Wedding has many family connections to Carleton. His father, the late Leroy C. Wedding, was a Carl during the first semester of the 1941-42 school year. He left after the beginning of World War II. His wife is Nancy Ashmore '72. His daughter, Kristin Wedding Crowell '91, taught in Carleton's Physics and Astronomy Department from 2003 to 2006.
See also
- User:Ken Wedding '67 - User profile on CarlWiki
