{"id":4211,"date":"2003-05-30T10:52:07","date_gmt":"2003-05-30T10:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4211"},"modified":"2003-05-30T10:52:07","modified_gmt":"2003-05-30T10:52:07","slug":"at-the-ecs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4211","title":{"rendered":"at the ECS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>p>I&#8217;m still at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecs.org\">Education Commission of<\/p>\n<p>the States<\/a> in Denver, discussing state standards in civics. One distinguished<\/p>\n<p>colleague argued that no educational reform really succeeds unless a state<\/p>\n<p>has <i>all<\/i> of the following elements in place: appropriate standards,<\/p>\n<p>tests, courses, textbooks, funding, and professional development opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>(It can also be useful to have appropriate admissions requirements at<\/p>\n<p>the state university.) Unfortunately, all the elements of an effective<\/p>\n<p>civics program are missing in most states today. This is a serious matter,<\/p>\n<p>for young people are being inadequately prepared to participate in politics<\/p>\n<p>in civic life, and consequently many are not involved at all. (We make<\/p>\n<p>this general argument in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicmissionofschools.org\">The<\/p>\n<p>Civic Mission of Schools<\/a> report.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>p>I&#8217;m still at the Education Commission of the States in Denver, discussing state standards in civics. One distinguished colleague argued that no educational reform really succeeds unless a state has all of the following elements in place: appropriate standards, tests, courses, textbooks, funding, and professional development opportunities. (It can also be useful to have appropriate [&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-4211","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\/4211","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=4211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}