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							<title><![CDATA[Civics Needs Pluralism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2025/03/05/civics_needs_pluralism_1095715.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America is a beautiful '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' and decidedly pluralistic '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' country. Our education system contains 12,546 locally controlled school districts. Charter schools have gained'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' hundreds of thousands of students'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in recent years.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Private school enrollments are up, and the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' classical...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Social Studies Needs To Be a First-Class Subject]]></title>
							<link>https://thefulcrum.us/civic-engagment-education/social-studies</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Feb 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Kelly is vice president of civics initiatives at the Jack Miller Center.Social studies is the subject most likely to provide explicit education for citizenship. And yet a recent white paper commissioned by Thinking Nation confirms what many involved with K-12 education already know:...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Finding Solutions to America's Civics Crisis]]></title>
							<link>https://thefulcrum.us/big-picture/Civic-Ed/finding-solutions-for-civic-education</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For those who care about civic education, these may seem like hard days indeed. Recent'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' national assessments'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' suggest that student learning in civics and U.S. history is down, and one doesn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t need to look hard to find'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' depressing statistics'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' about the civic knowledge of adults.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bringing Civics Back to American Higher Education]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/bringing-civics-back-to-american-higher-education</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the aftermath of World War II, President Harry Truman convened a presidential commission on the role of American colleges and universities. Truman wanted to explore the potential for higher education to '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'strengthen democracy,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' he said . The commission was significant in that...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Leading the Charge on Civics Education]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2023/09/06/leading_the_charge_on_civics_education_977625.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The need for stronger civics instruction has never been clearer. As recently released test scores revealed, American students simply do not possess the civics knowledge they need to become thoughtful]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[K-12 Civics Shouldn't Be a Partisan Battleground]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpublicaffairs.com/articles/2022/08/04/k-12_civics_doesnt_need_to_be_a_partisan_battleground_846064.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Thomas Kelly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Is non-partisan civics education still possible? For many Americans, such a notion might seem hopelessly naive. To make their case, they need only point to states'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' passing'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' legislation to combat critical race theory (CRT) or others like'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Illinois'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' California'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' that mandate...]]></description>
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