In my role as President of the Education Alumni Association at a local college I host a “Principal and Community Breakfast” every February. We invite a policy maker, a researcher, or a scholar to make a presentation to local principals and activists. This year we invited a speaker from the US Census; she made an excellent present – the Census and Schools. In addition to the adults I invited the leadership class from a local high school. After the presentation I met with the kids and asked what they “learned.” One student said if there was an undercount New York State could lose one or two members of the House of Representatives, another student was clearly “discomforted.”
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Today electors representing the winning candidate in the fifty states and the District of Columbia will cast their ballots, on January 6th, before a joint session of Congress the ballots will be counted: Biden 306, Trump 232.
The presidential election seemed to mark a revival in American civic engagement. A record two-thirds of the electorate voted. …
Yet large numbers of Americans appear to believe President Donald Trump’s baseless charges of election fraud. Civic life and discourse have been eroded by the normalization of lying by elected leaders, the dissemination of CONTINUE READING: Will Civics Education Help Students Make Better Decisions? [It’s complicated] | Ed In The Apple
