We hit rock bottom on civics education. Can we turn it around?
5/23/23
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from The Washington Post,
5/23/23:
For the past three decades, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results have shown a need to turn things around for civic education. The results come out, and cries go up for more investment in civic learning. But nothing has changed. And now the slope of learning is headed down.
But our problem isn’t just underinvestment. It’s that, for three decades, adults have been fighting bitterly about what to teach by way of civic education, and the result is that the kids don’t get taught much at all.
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