Monday, June 20, 2011

Civics education report: The sky is falling….again! - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Civics education report: The sky is falling….again! - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Civics education report: The sky is falling….again!

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This was written by Mark Phillips, professor emeritus of secondary education at San Francisco State University and author of a monthly column on education for the Marin Independent Journal.

By Mark Phillipps

Media responses to educational reports have become predictably semi-hysterical, simplistic, and taken to invalid conclusions. So it was with the recent report from the Department of Education: