A quality education does more than just teach facts and figures. It also provides a foundation for students to contribute to civic life as informed
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Civic Health in 2021: How to Engage With Your Community
If you’re like me, you’re probably concerned about the civic health of our nation. Our public discourse is increasingly vitriolic, all efforts at
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Tocqueville on Civic Life
“Municipal institutions constitute the strength of free nations. Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it
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Obama, Millennials, and the 2008 Election
In 2008, a multitude of young people (millennials) became actively engaged in the presidential election. Barack Obama leveraged the incredible power
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Voting With My Parents
In order to build a stronger civil society, parents need to take a more active role in passing on the civic value of voting to their kids. My parents
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Why You Should Vote
In the 2012 presidential election, only 57% of the eligible adult population voted. To put it another way, a little less than half of the adults in