ED Favors Colleges With “Civic” Schools in Awarding Grant

ED Favors Colleges With “Civic” Schools in Awarding Grant

The federal government is funding educational seminars about the 250th anniversary of America’s founding. Applying institutions get a leg up if they have what are often criticized as conservative centers. Even as it freezes billions of dollars in higher education funding elsewhere, the Trump administration is offering colleges and universities grants to put on seminars for K-12 educators and students related to next year’s 250th anniversary of th

How Higher Ed Can Ace Civics Education — The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal

A need to reinvest in civics education has become a bipartisan refrain in recent years. While academics lament declining trust in our institutions and worsening political polarization, civics education has become an often-invoked panacea. But civics has also become a front line in the ongoing culture wars. Liberal faculty suspect high-profile civics initiatives at the University of Florida, the University of Texas-Austin, and Arizona State Unive…