More Civics Will Not Save Us from Trump

 

Constitution Day is coming up, but there won't be fireworks and hot dogs. Instead, a federal law requires public educators to teach about the country's founding document. But, as Ursula Wolfe-Rocca writes in her latest Zinn Education Project column, "Teaching More Civics Will Not Save Us from Trump," "Too often, our curriculum teaches the Constitution as if it is a holy text (with the framers its prophets), that asks students to memorize what is legal more often than it asks them to grapple with what is just..." 

Wolfe-Rocca draws on her many years of teaching U.S. history to describe the kind of civics teaching that we need ---- and don't need ---- in our schools.

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"Teaching More Civics Will Not Save Us from Trump" is the newest article in the Zinn Education Project's If We Knew Our History series, posted at Common Dreams. You can help us reach a wider audience
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