Teaching America The Case for Civic Education

Teaching America responds to a crisis in citizenship. To remain America, our country has to give its kids a civic identity, an understanding or" our constitutional system, and some appreciation of the amazing achievements of American self-government. But we are failing to do soùa failure that weakens our common culture, disenfranchises would-be voters, and helps poison political discourse. That's why this book gathers more than twenty leading thinkers to diagnose our civic illiteracy problem, explain its terribly high stakes-and lay out a powerful agenda for reform. Book jacket.

David Feith is an assistant editorial features editor at The Wall Street Journal, where he edits op-eds and writes mainly about foreign policy and education reform. He was twice a Robert L. Bartley Fellow at The Wall Street Journal Mid. later worked as an assistant editor at Foreign Affairs magazine. Feith chairs the Civic Education Initiative, which he cofounded while in college to promote a national agenda for strengthening civic knowledge.