{"id":3191,"date":"2002-07-26T08:17:51","date_gmt":"2002-07-26T13:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=3191"},"modified":"2002-07-26T08:17:51","modified_gmt":"2002-07-26T13:17:51","slug":"civic_education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/26\/civic_education.html","title":{"rendered":"Civic Education and Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"

A long and interesting article about the decline of “civics”<\/a> in our public education — and some of the fallout thereof.<\/p>\n

While the author gets at times a bit rah-rah about how things were in the past, I think he’s correct in some of his basic points: in overthrowing the (sometimes stifling or homogenizing or tyrannical) social and cultural mores of the past, we’ve thrown out the baby with the bathwater — and not bothered to refill the tub, either.<\/p>\n

At the least, something to think of.<\/p>\n

(via VftC<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A long and interesting article about the decline of “civics” in our public education — and some of the fallout thereof. 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