Defending America at Home and Abroad
Tonight I am having dinner with U.S. Senator Karl Levin. It will be a small gathering of about 300. He's actually speaking at my synagogue as part of a monthly program that we have. The title of his talk is Defending Democracy at Home and Abroad. I'm hoping there will be an opportunity for questions afterwards. I plan on asking Senator Levin how we can talk about defending democracy if the one school subject that is not required by No Child Left Behind is social studies. Shouldn't American students have a requirement to learn the values of democracy? If I have time for a follow up, I'll ask him how we can talk about defending democracy when so many websites are blocked from schools and the federal government continues to talk about prohibiting more sites. (Do you remember DOPA?)
posted by Andrew Pass @ 2:22 PM
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I hope your meeting goes well. In Texas social studies is part of the state testing (TAKS). We must encourage our students to learn all they can about current events. With digital media coming at them from all directions, they must be able to make intelligent decisions.
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