{"id":4118,"date":"2003-01-09T17:19:22","date_gmt":"2003-01-09T17:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4118"},"modified":"2003-01-09T17:19:22","modified_gmt":"2003-01-09T17:19:22","slug":"the-civic-mission-of-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4118","title":{"rendered":"the Civic Mission of Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was a fairly short work day, because I was helping at home in the<\/p>\n<p>morning and then took a 2-hour lunch to discuss with colleagues the final<\/p>\n<p>grades for last semester&#8217;s graduate course. (Three of us taught something<\/p>\n<p>called &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.puaf.umd.edu\/students\/programs\/cp4\/CP4.html\">The<\/p>\n<p>Proseminar in Politics, Philosophy, and Public Policy<\/a>,&quot; a graduate-level<\/p>\n<p>introduction to the basic tools you need to analyze fundamental social<\/p>\n<p>and moral questions.)<\/p>\n<p>The big thing that is going on at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicyouth.org\">CIRCLE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>is our soon-to-be completed joint report with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnegie.org\">Carnegie<\/p>\n<p>Corporation<\/a>, entitled &quot;The Civic Mission of Schools.&quot; We<\/p>\n<p>worked all fall to hold meetings and email discussions for about 55 people<\/p>\n<p>who are contributors to, and potential endorsers of, the report. The final<\/p>\n<p>draft is now with these people for their last comments, and they are to<\/p>\n<p>decide whether to endorse. Monday is the deadline. Some participants want<\/p>\n<p>changes; the big debate is about whether it is necessary to run schools<\/p>\n<p>in a more democratic manner. For some of our participants, this is the<\/p>\n<p>key to reform. For others, it is risky and unsupported by research evidence.<\/p>\n<p>We are working to develop compromise language that is meaningful advice<\/p>\n<p>to schools. I remain confident that we will have a solid report with 50<\/p>\n<p>signatories. (Meanwhile, I&#8217;m spending a lot of my time on practical details<\/p>\n<p>like layout, copy-editing, scheduling the launch, etc.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a fairly short work day, because I was helping at home in the morning and then took a 2-hour lunch to discuss with colleagues the final grades for last semester&#8217;s graduate course. (Three of us taught something called &quot;The Proseminar in Politics, Philosophy, and Public Policy,&quot; a graduate-level introduction to the basic tools [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4118","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\/4118","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}