Opinion
Boosting civic knowledge among young adults is no simple task
The future of American civic life depends on students' continued willingness to learn real lessons from the nation's past.
Opinion
To combat radicalism, teach the Founding
Our system of government, with its multiple layers and separate branches, its freedoms to speak and assemble, is designed not to produce consensus but to manage disagreement, to channel it to productive rather than destructive ends. For too many young people, these are unfamiliar truths. That’s on us.
News
Bill requiring civic education in NC higher ed clears committee
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.
Opinion
Voters deserve information on fiscal crisis
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...
News
Friday Interview: Failing Civic Education
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.)
