{"id":5198,"date":"2007-04-27T23:50:48","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T23:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5198"},"modified":"2007-04-27T23:50:48","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T23:50:48","slug":"four-years-after-the-civic-mission-of-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5198","title":{"rendered":"four years after the &#8220;Civic Mission of Schools&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Wingspread, near Racine, Wisconsin) I&#8217;m here for a meeting of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobilize.org\/\">Mobilize.org<\/a>, which is working with various partners to try to construct a declaration or manifesto on behalf of the Millennial Generation. Young Americans from across the country will have a substantial role in creating this declaration; we are talking about how to organize the process. That question raises many complex and interesting issues. My head is so full of conflicting thoughts and echoes of other people&#8217;s speech that I do not feel ready to write anything here.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, let me recommend the current issue of CIRCLE&#8217;s newsletter (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicyouth.org\/PopUps\/Newsletter\/v4.i3.pdf\">PDF here<\/a>; or free copies are available by request to <a href=\"mailto:dwillia8@umd.edu\">Dionne Williams<\/a>). Four years ago, CIRCLE and Carnegie Corporation of New York published the report entitled <i>The Civic Mission of Schools<\/i>. Since then, we at CIRCLE have helped launch a lobbying campaign to fight for the report&#8217;s recommendations and funded additional research to address questions that the report raised&#8211;using $1 million in research support from Carnegie. Our latest newsletter summarizes the policy changes and the new research, showing the benefits of commitment and sustained focus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Wingspread, near Racine, Wisconsin) I&#8217;m here for a meeting of Mobilize.org, which is working with various partners to try to construct a declaration or manifesto on behalf of the Millennial Generation. Young Americans from across the country will have a substantial role in creating this declaration; we are talking about how to organize the process. [&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-5198","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\/5198","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=5198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}