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Teaching Veterans Day
What So Proudly We Hail has published a Veterans Day curriculum, which includes Mark Twain’s The War Prayer, an Ernie Pyle dispatch,...

Joanne Jacobs
Nov 13, 20171 min read


Schools for citizens
“Our public schools” have a critical role as “an incubator of citizens,” writes Erika Christakis in The Atlantic. Our public-education...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 21, 20172 min read


Is free speech only for nice speech?
Thirty-nine percent of college students believe the First Amendment doesn’t protect hate speech and another 16 percent aren’t sure,...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 20, 20172 min read
A grand old flag
#FourthofJuly #patriotism

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 4, 20171 min read


Officer Friendly doesn’t work here any more
Whatever happened to Officer Friendly? asks Eric Easter of Urban News Service. “I remember Officer Friendly used to come from 1st to 4th...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 29, 20172 min read


Teach the controversy — but how?
In The Case for Contention, Jonathan Zimmerman and Emily Robertson argue for the Enlightenment tradition, writes David Steiner in an...

Joanne Jacobs
May 27, 20172 min read


For a more perfect union
Elementary schools have contributed to national discord by neglecting to teach American history and civic principles, writes E.D. Hirsch...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 10, 20172 min read


Pledge of Allegiance is controversial
When a New York City school began inviting students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, it “sparked tensions,” reports DNAinfo New York....

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 21, 20171 min read


‘New Civics’ or left-wing activism?
What colleges call “the New Civics” is really “progressive political activism,” charges a National Association of Scholars report, Making...

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 25, 20172 min read
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