A Core Curriculum for Civic Literacy

A Core Curriculum for Civic Literacy 1

Gwenda Kaczor for The Chronicle Review

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Gwenda Kaczor for The Chronicle Review

The past few years have seen an outpouring of books and reports deploring Americans' civic ignorance, with titles like Just How Stupid Are We?, The Dumbest Generation, The Age of American Unreason, and Tuned Out: Why Americans Under 40 Don't Follow the News. This is a problem that everyone seems to complain about but no one tries to solve through any coordinated, nationwide effort.

National organizations have recently been formed, including the Campaign for the Civic

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