Podcast: Is Civics Education Cool?
(A recap of Civic Learning Week)
Yes, of course civics education is cool! Particularly the non-boring kind that promotes a sense of civic agency and builds lifelong citizens.
Hear more (and a recap of last week’s Civic Learning Week) in my conversation with Elizabeth Clay Roy, CEO of Generation Citizen, and Abbie Kaplan, Associate Director of Federal Policy at iCivics.
We talk about:
What civics education has to do with the urgent challenges to our democracy
How un-boring civics education has become for students (it’s no longer just learning about the three branches of government)
What’s going on in state and federal policymaking around civics (beyond the Civics Secures Democracy Act)
Check out our conversation here, above, or wherever you get your podcasts!
The credits
Many thanks to freelance podcast editing/producing guru Natalie Brennan for her work on this episode.
I hope you enjoy the episode. Let me know what you think by sending me a note or replying to this email. My email is gabe@democracy-notes.org.