Joel Westheimer: Americans Are Losing Faith in Democracy
Joel Westheimer is American-born but lives in Canada, where he teaches Democracy and Education at the University of Ottawa. He writes: The attack on the...
Category : Civics
Andrea Gabor: Now Is the Time to Revive Civics Education and Media Literacy
Andrea Gabor argues that the violent storming of Congress is reason to revive civics in schools. Clearly, she writes, many Americans do not understand the...
Accountability for Those Who Provoked Insurrection
Brianna Keilar of CNN speaks here about the post-insurrection efforts to rewrite history by those who were complicit in nurturing the mob and amplifying their...
A Warning: Who Is Paying for Your State’s Civics Courses?
If you have a few minutes to do some research, you might wonder about the connections among these three links: First is from the extreme...
Washington Post: Could Trump Declare Martial Law and Steal the Election?
The fact that anyone is discussing the possibility of martial law demonstrates how much Trump has degraded our democracy. When Hillary Clinton lost the election...
Andrea Gabor: We Need Civics Education!
Andrea Gabor, the Bloomberg Professor of Business Journalism at Baruch College of the City University of New York, writes here about the importance of civics...
Rhode Island: A Must-Read Court Decision!
You are probably not in the habit of reading court decisions. They tend to be dense and filled with citations that slow down the reader....
Sign a Petition Against White Supremacist Curriculum
Trump wants to restore “patriotic history” and has vowed to creat a “1776 Commission” to carry out his wishes. Historians, history teachers, and everyone who...
NAEP Scores Drop in History, Civics: DeVos Blames Public Schools, Not NCLB, RTTT, ESSA, CCSS
The National Center for Education Statistics released NAEP scores in history and geography, which declined, and in civics, which were flat. Secretary of Education Betsy...
Johann Neem: On Unbecoming American
Johann Neem is the author of Democracy’s Schools: The Rise of Public Education in America, in which he describes the creation of public education between...