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While I was reading the education chapter, it seems like Dagger wants the civic virtues criteria in all the classes instead of just one. As a side note, the new Iowa Core Cirriculum does that by making each grade required to integrate certain aspects of the Iowa definition of "civic virtues" into their teaching methods. For example, the kindergartners will now be learning the basic set up of the united states governement.
They are also going to be defining rights and responsibilites, or as they put it, "Understand the basic concepts of government and democracy and that the U.S. Constitution defines the rights and responsibilities of citizens."
Mental Models of Purpose of College
2 years ago
I think the phrasing of the definition is telling here. According to the definition (and I'm not sure if there is more to the benchmark which there very well may be), students are just supposed to understand the fact that the Constitution defines rights. The benchmark says nothing about understanding the content of those rights and how they apply to practice. What is the good of knowing that you have rights if you don't know what they are?
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