{"id":11541,"date":"2013-05-06T14:52:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T18:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=11541"},"modified":"2013-05-06T14:52:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T18:52:14","slug":"cnn-op-ed-citizenship-isnt-about-passing-a-civics-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=11541","title":{"rendered":"CNN op-ed: Citizenship isn&#8217;t about passing a civics test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In lieu of a post here today, I have a piece on CNN.com entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/05\/06\/opinion\/levine-citizenship\/index.html?sr=sharebar_facebook\">Citizenship isn&#8217;t about passing a civics test<\/a>.&#8221; Please read it there, but it begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As Congress debates immigration law, it cannot avoid debating citizenship. Who gets to be a citizen? And what should citizens know, believe, and do?<\/p>\n<p>Under current law, would-be citizens must pass the U.S. Naturalization Test, which poses factual questions about civics and history such as: &#8220;What are two rights in the Declaration of Independence?&#8221; \u2026<\/p>\n<p>This test assumes that a competent citizen knows some basic information about the U.S. political system. Most American students must demonstrate similar competence. All U.S. states have standards for K-12 social studies and, typically, the teacher assesses knowledge with paper-and-pencil tests that resemble the naturalization test.<\/p>\n<p>One question is whether these requirements reflect a worthy definition of citizenship. \u2026. Another question is whether studying for short-answer tests teaches people much \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In lieu of a post here today, I have a piece on CNN.com entitled &#8220;Citizenship isn&#8217;t about passing a civics test.&#8221; Please read it there, but it begins: As Congress debates immigration law, it cannot avoid debating citizenship. Who gets to be a citizen? And what should citizens know, believe, and do? Under current law, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocating-civic-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11548,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11541\/revisions\/11548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}