NEW SCHOOL CIVICS

The following is an excerpt from an article entitled "Three Questions for America", written by the late Ronald Dworkin. The excerpt helps explain the purpose of this blog, which is to promote the collaborative development of a new school civics course that helps all students develop the necessary knowledge, skills, and dispositions required to take an active and informed role in their communities... When President Bush said that intelligent design should be taught in the schools, his science adviser, John Marburger, said that Darwinian theory is "the cornerstone of modern biology," and that Bush meant only that "students should be taught that some people have suggested that Intelligent Design is a viable alternative theory."... If so, we should welcome Bush's suggestion, but not for courses in science. Instead we urgently need to make a Contemporary Politics course in which such claims can be discussed part of every high school curriculum.