{"id":9775,"date":"2012-09-25T13:49:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T17:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=9775"},"modified":"2012-09-25T13:49:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T17:49:01","slug":"do-we-teach-civics-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=9775","title":{"rendered":"do we teach civics anymore?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/23\/whats-wrong-with-pennsylvania\/?hp\">New York Times<\/a> online (Sept. 23), Thomas B. Edsall quotes a Romney supporter who explains why Obama may win that state: \u201cPeople are stupid. \u2026 [Governments] eliminated civics from our curriculum. The students don\u2019t know about civics, they don\u2019t know about our history, our government, our constitution.\u201d The mega-blogger Atrios <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2012\/09\/is-this-true.html\">asks whether it\u2019s true<\/a> that civics has been eliminated, and Kevin Drum thinks not, heading his blog post, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2012\/09\/civics-alive-and-well-american-high-schools\">Civics is Alive and Well in American High Schools<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is an empirical question (a matter of fact), and a relatively full analysis is coming very soon from CIRCLE. We are at the proofreading and layout stage of a study that investigates all the standards, course requirements, and tests for civics and government in the 5o states plus DC. I do not want to scoop our findings, but my previous writing on this topic has already disclosed a major theme: We do still teach&#8211;and require&#8211;civics, but how we define and assess the subject is not satisfactory if we are trying to produce active and responsible participants in civil society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the New York Times online (Sept. 23), Thomas B. Edsall quotes a Romney supporter who explains why Obama may win that state: \u201cPeople are stupid. \u2026 [Governments] eliminated civics from our curriculum. The students don\u2019t know about civics, they don\u2019t know about our history, our government, our constitution.\u201d The mega-blogger Atrios asks whether it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9775","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\/9775","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9784,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775\/revisions\/9784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}