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The new Civics Education Initiative — requiring high school students to pass a 100-question test on basic history and civic facts to graduate — is creating quite a buzz around the […]
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be President of the United States? In this day and age most of us typically see the life of a […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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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