civics

Under the proposed changes, the test would have a new English-speaking section and a new written multiple-choice format in the civics section.

One of her comments always resonates for me, that civics is something that has to be learned and relearned because it’s not stamped on our DNA.

I don’t recall it even dropping that term, which is fine; it’s a sunny TV sitcom, not a civics lesson.

No civics textbook could prepare students for the realities of power that kept the nation’s war machine on a rampage, taking several million lives in Southeast Asia or supplying weapons making possible genocide in Gaza.

Unfortunately, you can’t just plug civics and democracy into a system based on standardization and expect meaningful results.