How To Make A Civics Education Stick [npr.org]

Alicia Doktor 8/15/188:10 AM

How do you teach kids to be active participants in government? Or to tell the difference between real news and fake news?

In their last legislative sessions, 27 states considered bills or other proposals that aim to answer these questions. Many of those proposals are rooted in popular ideas about the best ways to teach civics, including when kids should start, what they should learn and how to apply those lessons. Here's a look at some of those concepts.

Start when they're young, go into college.

[For more on this story by EMILY CARDINALI, go to https://www.npr.org/2018/08/14...vics-education-stick]

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