Making Citizens: How American Universities Teach Civics is a 523 page report completed by the Nat... more Making Citizens: How American Universities Teach Civics is a 523 page report completed by the National Association of Scholars in January 2017. EVERY TEACHER, SCHOLAR, EDUCATOR, ADMINSTRATOR AND PARENT MUST BE MADE AWARE OF THIS DEADLY ATTACK ON AMERICA. “Instead of teaching college students the foundations of law, liberty, and self- government, colleges teach students how to organize protests, occupy buildings, and stage demonstrations.” This “New Civics” redefines civics as progressive political activism with designs to repurpose and transform higher education. The advocates believe that this transformation can be accomplished by systematically changing America from an unjust, oppressive society to one that embodies social justice. New Civics proponents want to build it into every college class regardless of subject. NAS wishes to bring this to the public’s attention. This report provides a history of the New Civics movement when it was endorsed by President Obama and provides case studies of four universities that also identifies the faculty responsible: the University of Colorado, Boulder (CU-Boulder), Colorado State University in Fort Collins (CSU), the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley (UNC), and the University of Wyoming in Laramie (UW). NAS publishes nine national findings which highlight a harbinger to American security, ten recommendations on how to reorient and change Civics education in America, and a Declaration of Principles for Civics education. "Civics education does not seek to prepare “citizens of the world,” but citizens of the United States. American students should know about other nations’ governments, laws, and cultures, and about the roles of international bodies, but these are not the substance of civics education. Civics education should prepare Americans for the tasks of participating effectively in their own government. It is not a curriculum meant to provide the whole of a liberal education." The full report is available at www.nas.org/makingcitizens
Making Citizens: How American Universities Teach Civics is a 523 page report completed by the Nat... more Making Citizens: How American Universities Teach Civics is a 523 page report completed by the National Association of Scholars in January 2017. EVERY TEACHER, SCHOLAR, EDUCATOR, ADMINSTRATOR AND PARENT MUST BE MADE AWARE OF THIS DEADLY ATTACK ON AMERICA. “Instead of teaching college students the foundations of law, liberty, and self- government, colleges teach students how to organize protests, occupy buildings, and stage demonstrations.” This “New Civics” redefines civics as progressive political activism with designs to repurpose and transform higher education. The advocates believe that this transformation can be accomplished by systematically changing America from an unjust, oppressive society to one that embodies social justice. New Civics proponents want to build it into every college class regardless of subject. NAS wishes to bring this to the public’s attention. This report provides a history of the New Civics movement when it was endorsed by President Obama and provides case studies of four universities that also identifies the faculty responsible: the University of Colorado, Boulder (CU-Boulder), Colorado State University in Fort Collins (CSU), the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley (UNC), and the University of Wyoming in Laramie (UW). NAS publishes nine national findings which highlight a harbinger to American security, ten recommendations on how to reorient and change Civics education in America, and a Declaration of Principles for Civics education. "Civics education does not seek to prepare “citizens of the world,” but citizens of the United States. American students should know about other nations’ governments, laws, and cultures, and about the roles of international bodies, but these are not the substance of civics education. Civics education should prepare Americans for the tasks of participating effectively in their own government. It is not a curriculum meant to provide the whole of a liberal education." The full report is available at www.nas.org/makingcitizens
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EVERY TEACHER, SCHOLAR, EDUCATOR, ADMINSTRATOR AND PARENT MUST BE MADE AWARE OF THIS DEADLY ATTACK ON AMERICA.
“Instead of teaching college students the foundations
of law, liberty, and self- government, colleges teach students how to organize protests, occupy buildings, and stage demonstrations.”
This “New Civics” redefines civics as progressive political activism with designs to repurpose and transform higher education. The advocates believe that this transformation can be accomplished by systematically changing America from an unjust, oppressive society to one that embodies social justice. New Civics proponents want to build it into every college class regardless of subject. NAS wishes to bring this to the public’s attention. This report provides a history of the New Civics movement when it was endorsed by President Obama and provides case studies of four universities that also identifies the faculty responsible: the University of Colorado, Boulder (CU-Boulder), Colorado State University in Fort Collins (CSU), the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley (UNC), and the University of Wyoming in Laramie (UW). NAS publishes nine national findings which highlight a harbinger to American security, ten recommendations on how to reorient and change Civics education in America, and a Declaration of Principles for Civics education.
"Civics education does not seek to prepare “citizens of the world,” but citizens of the United States. American students should know about other nations’ governments, laws, and cultures, and about the roles of international bodies, but these are not the substance of civics education. Civics education should prepare Americans for the tasks of participating effectively in their own government. It is not a curriculum meant to provide the whole of a liberal education."
The full report is available at www.nas.org/makingcitizens
EVERY TEACHER, SCHOLAR, EDUCATOR, ADMINSTRATOR AND PARENT MUST BE MADE AWARE OF THIS DEADLY ATTACK ON AMERICA.
“Instead of teaching college students the foundations
of law, liberty, and self- government, colleges teach students how to organize protests, occupy buildings, and stage demonstrations.”
This “New Civics” redefines civics as progressive political activism with designs to repurpose and transform higher education. The advocates believe that this transformation can be accomplished by systematically changing America from an unjust, oppressive society to one that embodies social justice. New Civics proponents want to build it into every college class regardless of subject. NAS wishes to bring this to the public’s attention. This report provides a history of the New Civics movement when it was endorsed by President Obama and provides case studies of four universities that also identifies the faculty responsible: the University of Colorado, Boulder (CU-Boulder), Colorado State University in Fort Collins (CSU), the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley (UNC), and the University of Wyoming in Laramie (UW). NAS publishes nine national findings which highlight a harbinger to American security, ten recommendations on how to reorient and change Civics education in America, and a Declaration of Principles for Civics education.
"Civics education does not seek to prepare “citizens of the world,” but citizens of the United States. American students should know about other nations’ governments, laws, and cultures, and about the roles of international bodies, but these are not the substance of civics education. Civics education should prepare Americans for the tasks of participating effectively in their own government. It is not a curriculum meant to provide the whole of a liberal education."
The full report is available at www.nas.org/makingcitizens