The Sandra Day O'Connor Institute for American Democracy today announced an initiative to support new research on civics and also published its premier policy brief, titled New Evidence on Trickle-Down and Trickle-Up Influences in Civic Education and Engagement.
There have been skirmishes about whether or not the improved Mississippi reading scores are real and what they mean. They indicate genuine, although modest, progress in the literacy skills of young Mississippi schoolchildren.
For many third graders in Mississippi, the only thing standing between them and fourth grade is passing the state’s reading test. The Mississippi Children’s Museum is one of the organizations volunteering to help students clear that last hurdle.
Hena Khan was raised in the Washington suburbs, the daughter of immigrants from Pakistan, and she describes the experience this way: “When I was growing up, it was really more