Sentences with phrase «civics education back»

All of these events — university protests, the de-prioritization of testing, and the breaking political system — prove that we must bring civics education back.

We need to bring civics education back.

And finally, we need to bring civics education back.

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The IEA subtly fought back insisting the NCCE should rather expend its efforts towards what it's statutorily mandated to do — civic education.

These education experts have forsaken the reform consensus; they now argue instead for an improved version of the «one best system» of American public schools — which harks back to the Horace Mann - era conviction that a single, uniform public - education system, run by professional educators, is the surest path to both literacy and civic unity.

The «big tent» of education reform spans the ideological spectrum, from civic leaders and business - backed advocates for higher standards and champions for charters and choice to the commitment of innovative educators and the relentless pursuit of equity by civil rights leaders and organizers.

Patting himself on the back perhaps a bit too often for being «tough - minded,» Macedo insists that, properly constructed, a civic education fostering liberal virtues is compatible with a great deal of diversity — and that what it is not compatible with does not deserve our respect or solicitude.

This unnatural focus on testing produced perverse but predictable results: it narrowed the curriculum; many districts scaled back time for the arts, history, civics, physical education, science, foreign language, and whatever was not tested.