{"id":16865,"date":"2016-05-09T10:03:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T14:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=16865"},"modified":"2016-05-09T10:03:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T14:03:28","slug":"explainer-on-civic-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=16865","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Explainer&#8221; on civic education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <em>The Conversation<\/em>, I have a new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/explainer-what-is-wrong-with-americas-civic-education-56854\">article<\/a> that&#8217;s meant to be a short overview of civic education today. It begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Any election demands knowledge, attention and wisdom from the whole electorate. When a campaign season does not seem to be going well, there\u2019s often angst about whether the public has been sufficiently educated.<\/p>\n<p>Anxious eyes turn to our public schools.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, writing in The Atlantic recently, <a href=\"http:\/\/steinhardt.nyu.edu\/faculty\/Jonathan_Zimmerman\">Jonathan Zimmerman<\/a>, professor of education and history at New York University, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2016\/04\/civic-education-in-the-age-of-trump\/477501\/\">decried the incivility of the 2016 campaign<\/a> and named \u201ca flaw with civic education.\u201d He wrote: &#8220;Put simply, schools in the United States don\u2019t teach the country\u2019s future citizens how to engage respectfully across their political differences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I have studied and advocated civic education for almost two decades. I believe civic education must be improved in the United States. First, though, it\u2019s important to understand the condition of America\u2019s civic education.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at The Conversation, I have a new\u00a0article that&#8217;s meant to be a short overview of civic education today. It begins: Any election demands knowledge, attention and wisdom from the whole electorate. When a campaign season does not seem to be going well, there\u2019s often angst about whether the public has been sufficiently educated. Anxious [&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":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocating-civic-education","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16865","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=16865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16870,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16865\/revisions\/16870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}