Our democracy is in crisis. Both political trust and a shared standard of truth are broken. In this book, Walter Parker shows why and how civic education can help. Offering a centrist approach suitable for a polarized society, Parker focuses on two linked curriculum objectives: disciplinary knowledge and voice. He illustrates how classroom…

Background: Cosmopolitans and their critics often imagine a spectrum of affinities--concentric circles of belonging reaching from the self and family to the ethnic group, the nation and, finally, to all humanity. Debates over the role schools should play in educating "world citizens" versus national patriots follow suit: Should educators work to…

States that elementary schools transmit values, either voluntarily or involuntarily due to school culture. Concludes there are three reasons for including a deliberate program of ethics in elementary citizenship education: (1) conscious teaching of appropriate values is preferable to involuntary transmission of inappropriate values; (2)…