{"id":16552,"date":"2016-03-11T15:17:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T20:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=16552"},"modified":"2016-03-12T14:21:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T19:21:21","slug":"the-question-each-citizen-must-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=16552","title":{"rendered":"the question each citizen must ask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"small\">(New York City) &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascd.org\/publications\/educational-leadership\/mar16\/vol73\/num06\/The-Question-Each-Citizen-Must-Ask.aspx\">The Question Each Citizen Must Ask<\/a>&#8221; is my new piece in <em>Educational Leadership<\/em>, the magazine for k-12 school administrators (vol. 73, no. 6, March 2016,\u00a0pp.\u00a030-34. It begins:<\/p>\n<div id=\"dnn_ctr14237_ViewVCMASCDContentModule_ctl00_articleContainer\" class=\"articleContainer\">\n<blockquote><p>When universal public education was invented in the United States, visionary proponents like Horace Mann believed they were building the first large-scale democracy in the history of the world. They realized that citizens would have to be educated to play their parts in a system that depended on millions of wise and active participants. They made a courageous bet that children could be taught to make democracy work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I argue that civic education must equip students to ask the citizen&#8217;s core question, and I explain what that is and what pedagogies are most promising. (The article is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/22295702\/The_Question_Each_Citizen_Must_Ask\">available via academia.edu<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(New York City) &#8220;The Question Each Citizen Must Ask&#8221; is my new piece in Educational Leadership, the magazine for k-12 school administrators (vol. 73, no. 6, March 2016,\u00a0pp.\u00a030-34. It begins: When universal public education was invented in the United States, visionary proponents like Horace Mann believed they were building the first large-scale democracy in the [&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-16552","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\/16552","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=16552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16554,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16552\/revisions\/16554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}