Hope you caught our WOMANTalk edition of the show today with Julie Quist of EdWatch and Audrey Russo. Bottom line question being posed to American students today is Will you be Proud to be an American or a World Citizen?
Here are a few links for Excerpts from Federal Civics / Public Presentations
Book with Excerpts from the Center for Civic Education : examples of how the federal civics are designed to promote the building blocks of global citizenship.
Teaching Democracy Globally, Internationally, and Comparatively: The 21st Century Civic Mission of School: We should imagine a "slow but steady rise to prominence of transnational conceptions and institutions of democracy."
Goals for Civic Education in the Republic's Third Century, by R. Freeman Butts: "Unless the profession and the public together alert themselves this time to the need for a 'history and civics lesson' about the First Amendment on religion and education, we may find the realm of public education narrowing and disintegrating under a massive conservative counter-reformation that seeks to reverse 40 years of liberal jurisprudence.
See more by Julie on WOMANTalk Blog HERE.
Hear the show (See 10/14/05)
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