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At 250, the Declaration of Independence still sparks hard questions in class

Teachers are using primary sources and museum visits to counter low civics knowledge and growing backlash, with more than half saying teaching basics feels difficult.

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By Greg Toppo for The 74 Among longtime history teacher Karalee Wong Nakatsuka’s most prized possessions are two nearly identical T-shirts with very different meanings. One comes from Philadelphia’s Museum of the American Revolution, celebrating the Founding Fathers’ signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and their fight for freedom from the British Crown. The second is from Ford’s Theater in Washington, D.C., where an assassin kille…
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Orlando Sentinel broke the news in Orlando, United States on Friday, June 19, 2026.
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