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Public education is supposed to prepare an informed citizenry – elementary teachers have just two hours a week to teach social studies

  • Written by Kenneth Anthony, Associate Professor of Elementary Education, Mississippi State University
imageA student listens to a U.S. history lesson in a New Mexico classroom.AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio

The founders of the United States were intentionally building a nationbased on the ideals of the Enlightenment, a movement centered on individual happiness, knowledge and reason. This new approach to defining a country – rather than basing it on...

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