How We Can Repair Our Democracy and Build a More Perfect Union
Briefly

America's civic education crisis is not new, but it is becoming increasingly dire.New data released by the Department of Educationknown as the Nation's Report Card and widely regarded as the best assessment of how well we are educating our future citizenspaints a stark and worrying picture.Eighth graders scored worse on the history section this year than in in any year since the test was first administered on the subject in 1994, and civics scores dropped for the first time since it was first tested in 1998, with less than one in every four students scoring proficient.
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