#CivicEDchat: Is this Civic Education's "Sputnik Moment?"
Civic education has failed us. This, at least, is one of the explanations for the surprising election of Donald Trump. Stories since then have recorded the fall of one political norm after another. Clearly there are consequences to our patterns of disengagement....
This Week's Canvas: On Getting Things Right
There’s no magic trick for picking three stories to put at the top of the concerned citizen’s reading list. I...
Together as One People
The original project to unite the people of the United States as one people began in May 1787. There’s a project...
What Do You Know about Civic Grit?
Attending a weekend workshop to focus on starting a business, I dug deeper into something Congressman John Lewis calls “good trouble.” The...
Vox Populi: Rights and Retribution
Conversations with nonvoters and the otherwise disengaged usually dredge up the question, “what difference does it make to me?” A very active...