
#CivicEDchat: Is this Civic Education’s “Sputnik Moment?”
Civic education has failed us. This, at least, is one of the explanations for the surprising election of Donald Trump. Stories since then have recorded the fall of one political norm after another. Clearly there are consequences to our patterns of disengagement. The forces pointing to the decline of civic education usually have their own solutions at hand and are getting too far with little information from practitioners. Let’s channel the professional insights from civic educators into a conversation where classroom experience can crowd out partisan talking points instead of the other way around. #CivicEDchat is a practitioner’s conversation, once…
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