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The Civic Mission of Schools has been the subject of the following news reports and editorials:
"Report Urges More US Civic Education," National Desk, United Press International, Feb. 13 David Broder, "School's
Civic Missions," Washington Post, Feb 16. Jane Eisner," A Painful Civics Lesson on the Need to Teach Civics," Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb. 16 Michael Cardman, "Avoid Dry, Rote Civic Programs, Says Report," Education Daily, Feb. 17 "Good Reads," Education Commission of States' e-newsletter, Feb. 19 "Civics Lesson," Daily Oklahoman editorial, February 17 E.J. Dionne, Jr., "Defining 'Patriotic Liberalism,'" Washington Post, February 28 Jennifer Geren, "College Students Promote Civics," The Oklahoman, March 5. "Report suggests how to restore the civic mission of American schools," Service-Learning Advances, March 4 Vartan Gregorian and Rebecca W. Rimel, "A New Civic Lesson for Our Kids," The Boston Globe, March 24, 2003. "Important Report Urges Civic Education," Law Matters, a publication of the American Bar Association, Winter 2003, p. 2. Thomas Martin and Scott Richardson, "Making Citizens Out of Students," Education Week, May 7 2003. Debra Henzey, "The Civic Mission of Schools," The Clearing House,
May/June 2003, pp. 172-3.
In addition, the Civic Mission of Schools has been "highly commended" on the floor of the U.S. Senate by Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN). See Congressional Record for March 4, 2003, p. S3040. |