{"id":19008,"date":"2017-09-21T08:29:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T12:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=19008"},"modified":"2017-09-21T08:29:10","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T12:29:10","slug":"new-overview-of-civic-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=19008","title":{"rendered":"new overview of civic education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.civxsummit.org\/documents\/v1\/SummitWhitePaper.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19009\" src=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-21-at-8.21.05-AM-229x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-21-at-8.21.05-AM-229x300.png 229w, https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/images\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-21-at-8.21.05-AM.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civxsummit.org\/index.html\">Democracy at the Crossroads<\/a>, a conference on civic education, with speakers who include Justice\u00a0Sonia Sotomayor, former Secretary of Education\u00a0John B. King Jr., Senator Bob Graham, Prof. Danielle Allen, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civxsummit.org\/program.html\">more<\/a>. At this conference, we are releasing &#8220;The Republic is (Still) at Risk&#8211;and Civics is Part of the Solution.&#8221; Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg and I are the authors of this new overview document, which builds on <em>The Civic Mission of Schools<\/em> (2003) and <em>Guardians of Democracy<\/em> (2011). We argue that the main reason to strengthen civics is the perilous condition of our republic, that today&#8217;s circumstances require innovation (not your grandparents&#8217; civics), that a wide range of practices are effective when done well, and that state policies can support civics. The paper releases new information on positive changes in Florida and Illinois. It is available for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civxsummit.org\/documents\/v1\/SummitWhitePaper.pdf\">download<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Citation:\u00a0Peter Levine and Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, \u201cThe Republic is (Still) at Risk\u2014and Civics is Part of the Solution\u201d (Medford, MA: Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University, 2017)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m at Democracy at the Crossroads, a conference on civic education, with speakers who include Justice\u00a0Sonia Sotomayor, former Secretary of Education\u00a0John B. King Jr., Senator Bob Graham, Prof. Danielle Allen, and more. At this conference, we are releasing &#8220;The Republic is (Still) at Risk&#8211;and Civics is Part of the Solution.&#8221; Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg and I are [&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-19008","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\/19008","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=19008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19011,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19008\/revisions\/19011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}