A 2020 Year in Review

A 2020 Year In Review
What JMC is Doing to Recapture
Civic Education in Our Schools

The past year presented many obstacles to education, in a time when uniting—and regrounding—the nation in our common values is most needed.

The values that unite us as Americans are in our founding documents and ideas. But they only work if each generation of citizens understands them. Education is key.

Thanks to the steadfast support of our donors, we made great progress in bringing America's founding principles and history back to the forefront of civic education—in high schools, colleges, and beyond.

We are charging ahead. Take a look below for a snapshot of our progress and to see how you can help more students get a solid education in our nation's history and founding principles.

JMC's Mission in Action
A Snapshot of Your Donations at Work

New Florida Statewide High School Teacher Initiative to Become the Model for Expanding into Other States

In 2020, we began collaboration with the Bill of Rights Institute and the Ashbrook Center on the "American Civics and History Initiative," an ambitious multi-year project to reach 6,800 middle and high school teachers in Florida.

This project will become the model for expanding into other states around the country. It joins our high school efforts in Chicago, New York City, Wisconsin, and Virginia. Click here to read the article >>.

Middlebury College Students Reject 'Intellectual Conformity'

Middlebury College is known for an absence of intellectual diversity on its campus. JMC support for partner professor Keegan Callanan is changing that through the Alexander Hamilton Forum, cultivating debate and discussion around ideological differences.

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JMC's Partner Program at Assumption Starts 'Model Senate' Project, Will Be Adopted by Other Universities

At Assumption University, students are engaging in an innovative "mock senate," where they debate political issues while applying the principles of American political thought. In the process, they gain critical thinking skills and learn about our political institutions. The program is now inspiring other colleges to do the same.

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JMC Advances Careers of Promising Young Scholars
Who Share our Mission

JMC's program to recruit and support professors on campus who believe in our founding principles is designed to bolster the career of young academics.
John Dearborn is the 2019-2021 Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science at Yale, shares his experience.

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Read the Full 2020 Year-in-Review Report

~Our Success Since 2004~

"The battle for the soul of our nation will be won or lost in our classrooms." —Jack Miller

The culture wars of today, pitting group against group, are tearing our nation apart. Yet our nation was built around the basic principle that all (men) are created equal, that we are a nation of individuals, each one of us entitled to our life, our liberty, and our pursuit of happiness.

If every generation does not understand that vision and our progress in achieving that ideal, our self-governing nation will be lost.

JMC is proud of our success so far in educating students about our founding principles and history. But there is still much work to be done.

At this moment, schools around the country are banning classic texts, promoting false narratives about America, and disparaging our history or omitting it altogether. Spurring anti-American sentiment among our young people has grave implications for our country.

Consider a tax-deductible gift to the Jack Miller Center. Your donation, large or small, is an investment in the future of our country—for you, for your children, for your grandchildren.

Click to Support Education in America's Founding Principles

About the Jack Miller Center

The Jack Miller Center is a 501(c)(3) public charity with the mission to reinvigorate education in America's founding principles and history. We work to advance the teaching and study of America's history, its political and economic institutions, and the central principles, ideas and issues arising from the American and Western traditions—all of which continue to animate our national life.

We support professors and educators through programs, resources, fellowships and more to help them teach our nation's students.

Jack Miller Center

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Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004

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