A Search for Common Ground: Civics education | VIEWPOINT

AEI’s Frederick M. Hess and Pedro Noguera, Dean of the USC Rossier School of Education, draw from their book, A Search for Common Ground: Conversations About the Toughest Questions in K-12 Education, to discuss civics education. Their conversation ranges from the need to teach students to grapple with the complexity of American history, to the issue with teaching history as a succession of wars, to how to address some of the more complicated parts of America’s past, and more.


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[janicedipietro]

I had an idea years ago that, at each grade level, there should be interactive civics embedded-starting in elementary school, the kids would learn patriotic songs and the Pledge of Allegiance; they would learn about the basic structure of the federal, state and local governments and would attend some local meetings. As they age, learning to research candidates and holding debates about candidates and policies and solutions while visiting state and federal branches. They should study the justice system and what is working or not. They should study communications against what they learn. It should be a big part of their learning.

[adamludwick]

TL;DR: Why should I waste my time listening to an interview that seems solely focused on drumming up book sales? If you book is anything like the narrative of this infomercial then is isn't worth reading.
Thumbs down for pandering and failing to challenge even the most trivial of Pedro's lies. The anecdote of his "mentor teacher" is unfounded; he has disparaged an unnamed man and you take it as gospel truth. I call shenanigans. "In every city in America there are ghettos, and most of those ghettos are black." Only the LAZIEST of interviewers would let this crap slide. There are far more Americans of European heritage living below the poverty line than there are Americans of African Heritage.