If you are like me, you weren’t taught anything about how to utilize the government that controls and influences every area of your life. That’s not our fault, some of those in government want to keep all the power for themselves and their kids, while many of us don’t want to put the time and effort into learning how to govern locally and nationally. Then we cry when the government, and our tax dollars, are used in ways that benefit the elite.

Can someone please google the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University? Share it and use what you find!

“CONVERSATIONS ABOUT GOVERNMENT AREN’T REALLY A PRIORITY IN A LOT OF SCHOOLS ACROSS THE COUNTRY.”

That’s according to Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, director of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University. “One of the things about civic education that’s challenging is that we neglected it for the past three decades or so for sure,” she says.

A 2021 report funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the U.S. Department of Education estimated that the federal government spends about $50 per student per year on studies related to science and math, but only five cents on civics.

“That’s a problem,” Kawashima-Ginsberg says, “because not only does civics education teach students how the government is supposed to function, it also teaches students how to disagree with one another in a productive way.”