Is There a Way to Bring Civics Back to American Schooling?

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democracy can only exist when the populace is educated, says Stacy Se. Public education seems to be facing a kind of existential crisis right now, coming out of movent., writes Se. The way we talk to each other on the internet may involve doing something like that, he adds.

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