civics

The good news is that civics education, which teaches children the basics of good citizenship, is quickly gaining fans after being dormant for decades.

The huge dust-up over the protests of the American flag during the presentation of the national anthem by National Football League players has served to dramatize a massive deficiency in civics education in this nation.

America just finished celebrating Presidents Day, but in this instance, “celebrating” means something entirely different than it usually does.

The goal of academe’s architects of New Civics is to replace the study of the basics of representative government with political activism on behalf of left-wing causes.

 Today, 237 years ago, this country declared its independence from Great Britain on July 4, 1776 and thus the Declaration of Independence was signed. How do we know this? Most of us were taught…

Sol Stern is a nice man. It’s too bad he’s deceiving himself and others about Common Core, an enterprise that essentially nationalizes U.S. education. He and Joel Klein write in…