Public education is supposed to prepare an informed citizenry – elementary teachers have just two hours a week to teach social studies
The founders of the United States were intentionally building a nation based 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 language, ethnicity or geographic proximity – meant the new United States would have to educate its citizenry with […]… Learn more.
