When we show people that our kids can’t do what immigrants can do, they’re first stunned and then ashamed.

Over the past generation, the teaching of civics has actually eroded in public schools.

"Civics is being boxed out of the classroom today," one of the foundation’s documents complained, "by an all-consuming focus on science, technology, English and math."

Alan Ehrenhalt

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