| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 235 pages). |
| Series |
New frontiers in education |
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New frontiers in education.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This book taps the best American thinkers to answer the essential American question: How do we sustain our experiment in government of, by, and for the people? To remain America, our country has to give its kids a civic identity, an understanding of our constitutional system, and some appreciation of the amazing achievement of American self-government. Yet schools often do no such thing. Young Americans know little about the founding fathers, the Bill of Rights, the structure of government, or the civilrights movement. Three of every four high-school seniors aren't proficient in civics, and t. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; I: Making the Case; 1 The Democratic Purpose of Education; 2 My Immigrant Tale; 3 The Right to Know Your Rights; 4 Safeguarding American Exceptionalism; II: From the White House to the Statehouse-Policymakers' Lessons Learned; 5 Civic Nation; 6 Civic Literacy and No Child Left Behind; 7 A Failure of Leadership; 8 Forgetting Martin Luther King's Dream; 9 Revolutionary Ignorance; 10 Core Curriculum; III: In the Classroom-What Works, What Doesn't; 11 Fighting Civic Malpractice; 12 The KIPP Approach; 13 The Wisdom of Twenty Thousand Teachers. |
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Citizenship -- Study and teaching -- United States.
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Civics -- Study and teaching -- United States.
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Citizenship -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Citizenship -- Study and teaching.
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Education.
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EDUCATION -- Teaching Methods & Materials -- Social Science.
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Citizenship -- Study and teaching. (OCoLC)fst00861932
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Civics -- Study and teaching. (OCoLC)fst00862347
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Added Author |
Feith, David.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Teaching America. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2011 9781607098409 (DLC) 2011026696 (OCoLC)724674216 |
| Standard No. |
9786613233851 |
| ISBN |
9781607098423 (electronic bk.) |
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1607098423 (electronic bk.) |
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