We have always done a poor job of teaching this subject, but the Southern Poverty Law Center's "Teaching the Movement" points out that instructional time for social studies in our most challenged schools has dropped by 1/3rd since NCLB. Education is the civil rights struggle of the 21st century, so what does it mean when just 2 percent of 12th graders who took the NAEP exam could answer a simple question about Brown v. Board of Education? Students enter the classroom with pre-
