Restoring America

Conservative values, National renewal

America desperately needs to bring back civics in education

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Civil society has deteriorated over the last three decades as people have withdrawn from civic life. The root cause of this trend lies in our failed education system, which has substituted nation-building civic education with destructive activism.

I’ve seen the results of this failed education firsthand in the classroom as a political science professor. Today’s college students lack the fundamental knowledge of our rights and obligations to society. 

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