Will U.S. Education Remedy A Half-Century Of Neglecting Civics Education?

Last year, a bipartisan group of eight U.S. senators introduced the USA Civics Act of 2019, which would amend the American History for Freedom program. As I wrote here, it has been 12 years since the Federal Higher Education Act was last reauthorized. Its latest reauthorization (2008) added a new provision—“American History for Freedom” (AHF)—which would award government funds to academic programs that focus on the political, philosophic, moral, and economic conditions of democratic freedom. The initiative included funding to hire philosophically unorthodox faculty—meaning those professors who believe the American experiment in self-government is still worth studying and defending.
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