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Feb. 11, 2015

Just Exactly What Is Civic Education?

In my day-to-day work, I’m confronted with a myriad of questions from the mundane to the wildly unexpected: “How many states include a civics course in their high school course […]

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Feb. 10, 2015

Student Voice in School Reform: Building a participatory institutional culture

“The problem is that we are constantly changing things and that teachers are having a hard time adapting.” “It’s not that we don’t like change; we don’t like the changes […]

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Feb. 5, 2015

Rosa Parks: A civil rights champion

Civil rights activist Rosa Parks was an African American woman known for refusing to relinquish her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955. […]

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Jan. 28, 2015

Education for Democracy. Education is Democracy. Education as Democracy.

I was fortunate enough to spend the day last Friday at the Ford Foundation as a participant in a daylong symposium on civic education and engagement. The meeting, “Educating for […]

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Jan. 16, 2015

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Promised Land: Are we getting closer?

In the last words of his famous “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. referred to seeing the promised land” — code for a better, more […]

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Just Exactly What Is Civic Education?

Student Voice in School Reform: Building a participatory institutional culture

Rosa Parks: A civil rights champion

Education for Democracy. Education is Democracy. Education as Democracy.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Promised Land: Are we getting closer?