civics

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• 6/26/2022
  

  We Are All Americans Here: The Crisis of Civic Empathy and our Besieged Democracy

  by Chris J. Magoc

  Many Americans are living in a state of grief at the rise of a movement led by an authoritarian sociopath. The answer is to rediscover through action a sense of shared humanity. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/3/2021
  

  Johns Hopkins Prez: Universities Failing Responsibility to Democracy

  by Ronald J. Daniels

  Today's universities need to break from a historical cycle of attention and indifference to matters of civic education. 

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  9/27/2021
  

  Conservatives: If You Don't Want Critical Race Theory in Classrooms, Provide the Resources for Civics Education

  by by Thomas Kelly, David Bobb, and Jeffrey Sikkenga

  Our three organizations launched the American Civics and History Initiative, a collaborative effort that provides thousands of teachers with learning opportunities they may have missed in college or graduate school.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/13/2021
  

  Teaching the 26th Amendment With The New York Times

  by Jennifer Frost

  A historian of the 26th Amendment offers a lesson plan for using newspapers as primary sources to teach how young Americans succeeded in lowering the voting age to 18. 

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• SOURCE: Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
  8/11/2021
  

  Hourlong Wisconsin Legislative Debate over "Critical Race Theory" and Teaching History

  "Teachers do not deliberately set out to make students feel bad about themselves. The problem this bill seems to identify, that Wisconsin's teachers intentionally or otherwise want to make students feel bad, is simply not real," said Jeremy Stoddard, a University of Wisconsin-Madison curriculum and instruction professor.

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• SOURCE: New York Post
  8/1/2021
  

  Sen. Hawley: Public Schools Must Make Kids Love America and the Founding

  by Josh Hawley

  Senator Josh Hawley argues that public schools are obligated to teach "the truth about our history and our purpose that unites us as a nation."

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  7/15/2021
  

  The Moral Panic Over Critical Race Theory Is Coming for a North Carolina Teacher of the Year

  Rodney Pierce won honors for going beyond a teach-the-test approach to middle school social studies by pushing his students to understand the history of their local community, including racism. He fears making white parents uncomfortable may jeopardize his job.

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• SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  6/2/2021
  

  Georgia State Education Board to Consider Rules on Race

  Georgia is the latest state in which conservatives have staked out social studies curricula as a culture war battle front. 

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  5/17/2021
  

  'The Words That Made Us': Scholar Akhil Reed Amar On How To Better Understand The Constitution

  "Scholar Akhil Reed Amar says the one thing every single American shares is the United States Constitution. He shares why he wants Americans to better understand the words that made us."

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  5/2/2021
  

  How The US Can Pass Civics 101

  by Glenn C. Altschuler and David Wippman

  American education in civics and history is not succeeding. How can it be improved in a polarized climate when content is a political football? 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/26/2021
  

  Infrastructure Isn’t Really About Roads. It’s About the Society We Want.

  by Erik Klinenberg

  The word "infrastructure" has always been sufficiently capacious to include all kinds of systems necessary for the operation of society. If anything, Biden's plan needs to be bigger, and incorporate the civic infrastructure of elections and public knowledge and the social infrastructure of schools, parks and libraries. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/10/2021
  

  Is Congress Falling for Scheme to Ruin Civics and History Classes?

  Education scholar Mark Bauerlein has criticized the new Civics Secures Democracy Act as a subsidy for politically correct indoctrination in schools, though others disagree with his recent Manhattan Institute findings. 

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• SOURCE: News 4 Jacksonville
  3/18/2021
  

  DeSantis Lashes out at ‘Critical Race Theory’ in Push to Overhaul Florida’s Civics Curriculum

  Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is the latest official to attack "Critical Race Theory" based on an understanding that the ideas are corrupting civics education by overstating the extent of racism in the US. 

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• SOURCE: Iowa Capital Dispatch
  3/16/2021
  

  Iowa House Passes Controversial Bill to Ban ‘Divisive Concepts’ from School Training, Curriculum

  “This bill is a denial of history,” Rep. Marti Anderson, D-Des Moines, said. “The bill doesn’t want our next generations to receive complete American history education that includes the facts of our darkest hours.” 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/1/2021
  

  Massive Investment in Social Studies and Civics Education Proposed to Address Eroding Trust in Democratic Institutions

  The Educating for American Democracy (EAD) initiative will release a 36-page report and an accompanying 39-page road map Tuesday, laying out extensive guidance for improving and reimagining the teaching of social studies, history and civics and then implementing that over the next decade.

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• SOURCE: Hechinger Report
  1/25/2021
  

  Can We Teach Our Way Out Of Political Polarization?

  The AHA's Jim Grossman is among the experts discussing the prospects for civics education to alleviate political polarization and the plague of disinformation. 

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• SOURCE: Newsday
  11/29/2020
  

  Social Media 'Misinformation' Endangers Democracy, Historians Say

  Historians Peniel Joseph and Karl Jacoby, along with media scholar Howard Schnieder, assess the way that strategic misinformation on social media has exploited racial divisions in Trump's efforts to overturn the election results. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/30/2020
  

  128 Tricky Questions That Could Stand Between You and U.S. Citizenship

  Irish Immigrant Maeve Higgins looks at the expanded civics test for naturalization, and gives it a failing grade--unless its purpose is to reduce immigration. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  10/31/2020
  

  Now Is A Good Time To Talk To Kids About Civics

  Election time is a perfect opportunity to help kids build up a foundation of knowledge.

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  10/21/2020
  

  History, Deliberation, and Civic Culture

  by Jim Grossman

  "Equating a mode of inquiry with a heinous crime should induce not only a private shudder but a public disavowal. No reasonable definition of patriotism can accommodate this despicable metaphor."