{"id":5446,"date":"2008-05-16T19:02:22","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T19:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5446"},"modified":"2008-05-16T19:02:22","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T19:02:22","slug":"the-aba-division-of-public-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5446","title":{"rendered":"the ABA division of public education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago: I&#8217;m here for a board meeting of the American Bar Association&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abanet.org\/publiced\/\">Division of Public Education<\/a>. With 400,000 members, the ABA is the association of lawyers in the United States; its public education division runs programs and produces materials that contribute to public understanding of the law, rights, justice, the Constitution, and similar topics. Much of the Division&#8217;s work is aimed at youth. Its director, Mabel McKinney-Browning, is one of the leaders in the movement for better civic education. She is, among other things, my successor as chair of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicmissionofschools.org\">Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools<\/a>. The Division&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abanet.org\/publiced\/\">website <\/a>provides a wealth of free materials on legal issues. As a member of the Division&#8217;s advisory board, I advocate for the ABA to become a political force for civic education. So far, the ABA has resolved to &#8220;urge the amendment of the No Child Left Behind Act if reauthorized, or the adoption of other legislation, to ensure that all students experience high quality civic learning . . . [that] is regularly and appropriately assessed . . . and accorded national educational priority on a par with reading and mathematics.&#8221; This position is now something that the Association&#8217;s lobbyists in Washington are supposed to advocate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago: I&#8217;m here for a board meeting of the American Bar Association&#8217;s Division of Public Education. With 400,000 members, the ABA is the association of lawyers in the United States; its public education division runs programs and produces materials that contribute to public understanding of the law, rights, justice, the Constitution, and similar topics. Much [&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-5446","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\/5446","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=5446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}