{"id":4157,"date":"2003-03-04T15:49:25","date_gmt":"2003-03-04T15:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4157"},"modified":"2003-03-04T15:49:25","modified_gmt":"2003-03-04T15:49:25","slug":"a-civic-approach-to-local-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4157","title":{"rendered":"a civic approach to local history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicmissionofschools.org\">The Civic Mission of<\/p>\n<p>Schools<\/a><\/i>, our report on <b>civic education<\/b>, has been getting<\/p>\n<p>quite a lot of press&#151;most of it positive. But Chester Finn wrote<\/p>\n<p>a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edexcellence.net\/gadfly\/#review1\">critical review<\/p>\n<p><\/a>that has been provoking some discussion in the civic engagement world.<\/p>\n<p>Over lunch today, my colleagues and I planned a <b>deliberative Website<\/p>\n<p><\/b>on the history of desegregation in Prince George&#8217;s County. We&#8217;re thinking<\/p>\n<p>that the &quot;intro&quot; will show class photos from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pgcps.pg.k12.md.us\/%7Enwest\/\">Northwestern<\/p>\n<p>High School<\/a>, each year gradually morphing into the next as the school<\/p>\n<p>moves from segregated white, to white with one black student in 1955-8,<\/p>\n<p>to today&#8217;s mosaic of ethnic groups. Next, visitors will be invited to<\/p>\n<p>explore a page that our high school students have already constructed,<\/p>\n<p>with a timeline of County history and interviews of participants in the<\/p>\n<p>integration stuggle. Visitors will then be able to move to a page that<\/p>\n<p>presents three contrasting answers to the question: &quot;What should<\/p>\n<p>the County have done in 1955 to address school segregation?&quot; Finally,<\/p>\n<p>they will be transferred to an online discussion forum to post their opinions.<\/p>\n<p>A major goal is to help our students see history not only as the record<\/p>\n<p>of state actions, powerful people, and downtrodded victims, but also as<\/p>\n<p>a story of communities making difficult decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Civic Mission of Schools, our report on civic education, has been getting quite a lot of press&#151;most of it positive. But Chester Finn wrote a critical review that has been provoking some discussion in the civic engagement world. Over lunch today, my colleagues and I planned a deliberative Website on the history of desegregation [&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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-high-school-civics-class"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4157","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=4157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}