A measure is moving in the General Assembly that would require at least three credit hours of instruction in American history or governance in order to graduate from a University of North Carolina institution or a community college.
Every citizen who meets the basic requirements — adulthood, residency, and the completion of sentence after a felony conviction — can cast a ballot in North Carolina. There’s no test of civic knowledge required to exercise the civil right to vote, nor should there be. (Our state constitution still contains a Jim Crow-era literacy test...
RALEIGH — Today, Carolina Journal Radio’s Mitch Kokai talks with Dr. Richard Brake, director of university stewardship for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, about a lack of civic education in our schools and universities. (Go here to find a station near you or to learn about the weekly CJ Radio podcast.)
