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Kids playing Portrait of a Tyrant video game in class

The Harvard Gazette: Reframing civics education

February 4, 2020

By: Jill Radsken, Harvard Staff Writer

Vassal Lane Upper School eighth-grader Bodie Morein toggled her laptop mouse, marching Brianna Little, her video game heroine, to a fort in New York state during revolutionary times. A crowd formed, chanting:

“If I say, ‘This is our,’ you say ‘Petition!’ ”

“If I say ‘Stamp Act,’ you say ‘No consent!’ ”

The game, “Portrait of a Tyrant,” is a small part of a year-long civics education curriculum with high stakes — the future of civics knowledge, identity, and engagement — for Morein’s class and students...

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Civic Education and the Declaration of Independence

July 1, 2016

By Danielle Allen

This spring a small but significant political battle played out in the Louisiana Statehouse.  Lawmakers shelved a Louisiana house bill requiring that fourth through sixth graders in public schools begin their day by reciting two-thirds of the second sentence of the Declaration of Independence. The debate reveals both how poorly equipped we are as a nation to understand even our founding document and what a hard time we’re having reinventing civic education for a new millennium.... Read more about Civic Education and the Declaration of Independence

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