Showing posts with label civic education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label civic education. Show all posts
Saturday, July 4, 2026

Civic Ignorance on America's 250th Birthday

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Many posts have discussed what Americans do and do not know about their government . Emily Ekins at Cato : A new national survey from ...
Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Knowledge of Government

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Many   posts  have  discussed  what Americans do and do not know about their government . Yale Youth Poll: If you’re reading this memo, you...
Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Public Knowledge and the Constitution

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 From the Annenberg Public Policy Center: The 2024 edition of the Annenberg Constitution Day Civics Survey , released annually to celebrate ...
Saturday, April 13, 2024

Tocqueville on Juries

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From  Democracy in America [eds. J. P. Mayer and Max Lerner, trans., George Lawrence, Harper & Row, 1966, pp. 249-53] To regard the jur...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Civic Illiteracy

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From the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation: A comprehensive new study from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation reveals an alarming tru...
Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Civic Thought and Deliberation

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Many posts have discussed deliberation . Civic Thought: A Proposal for University-Level Civic Education b Benjamin Storey & Jenna Si...
Saturday, December 9, 2023

Holocaust Denial

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  Nick Robertson at The Hill A fifth of Americans ages 18-29 believe the Holocaust was a myth,  according to a new poll from The Economist...
Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Civil Juries

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Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Lawrence/Mayer ed., p. 274): Juries , especially civil juries, instill some of the habits of t...
Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Declines in Civics and History Proficiency

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  Donna St. George at WP : Just 13 percent of the nation’s eighth graders were proficient in U.S. history last year, and 22 percent were pr...
Saturday, February 19, 2022

Youth Civic Engagement

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From the Brennan Center: Civic engage­ment is a key indic­ator of adult­hood. Young adults respond to the social and polit­ical issues of th...
Monday, January 24, 2022

Civic Education and Civic Virtue

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 Albert Cheng and Jay Greene at National Affairs : Civic education does not occur merely within the life of the school; it also occurs in h...
Friday, January 14, 2022

The "Lincoln-Douglass" Debates!

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Gillian Brockell at WP: Of all the paragraphs in a bill to ban “divisive concepts” from being taught in Virginia public schools, Section B3 ...
Thursday, January 13, 2022

Case on Civic Education

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Mark Walsh at Education Week : Students asserting the right to an adequate civics education have lost their appeal of a federal court rulin...
Thursday, January 6, 2022

Lawlessness

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 Gary Schmitt at AEI: A recent Washington Post poll has some 34 percent of U.S. adults saying that “violent action ” against the government...
Sunday, December 5, 2021

Campus Free Speech

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The Bipartisan Policy Center has a new report titled “Campus Free Expression: A New Roadmap.” From the executive summary: First, colleges an...
Monday, November 15, 2021

Information Disorder

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From the Aspen Institute: The Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder is making 15 recommendations to help government, private...
Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Public Opinion on Racial Reckoning

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From Pew: Opinion on the current national reckoning over the history of slavery and racism in the United States casts these divisions int...
Monday, August 2, 2021

A Discussion of Deliberative Democracy

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  Across Talk is a new monthly video series hosted by Lincoln Zaleski, a disinformation specialist at Renew America Together. In our fifth e...
Saturday, April 17, 2021

Sotomayor and Gorsuch for Civic Education

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Mark Walsh at Education Week : Two U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday renewed their calls for improving civics education , saying t...
Friday, April 3, 2020

Teaching Patriotism

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At Education Next, Frederick Hess and Matthew Rice report on series of conversations with a politically-diverse cross-section of leaders fr...