Civic education should supply “what students need to know to be participants in American public life,” says University of Virginia professor James W. Ceaser. But that goal is not being met at any educational level today.
At the primary and secondary levels, Ceaser contends that civics mostly “isn’t being taught well or isn’t being taught at all.” Colleges and universities, for their part, “have turned their backs on political science” as it was classically understood, changing the discipline’s focus to scientific expertise and mathematical calculations.
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