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Dreyfuss says civics education can save democracy

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Actor Richard Dreyfuss wants students to take on a project bigger than "Jaws."

Dreyfuss, speaking Thursday in Lexington to the annual Student Congress of the Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship, told about 60 students and teachers from around the country that improving civics education in schools is the way to save American democracy.

The Lexington Herald-Leader reported that Dreyfuss, 62, said, "We have to learn how to use the tools given to us in 1787" in the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Dreyfuss, who starred 35 years ago in "Jaws," won an Academy Award for best actor in "The