Educating for American Democracy
National Forum
Tuesday, March 2 from 3:00-4:45pm EST/12:00-1:45pm PST
The United States stands at a crossroads of peril and possibility. A healthy constitutional democracy demands reflective patriotism. In times of crisis, it is especially important that We the People unite love of country with clear-eyed wisdom about our successes and failures in order to chart our path forward. In recent decades, we as a nation have failed to prepare young Americans for self-government. The time has come to recommit to history and civics.
Join us at the National Forum on March 2nd from 3-4:45pm ET for the official release of the Educating for American Democracy Roadmap and Report. The forum will feature leading scholars discussing the Roadmap’s guidance about what and how to teach integrated K-12 history and civics for today’s learners. This project is the result of 17 months of work by over 300 contributors. Please join us for the launch of the first truly national and cross-ideological conversation about civic learning and history at a time when our country needs it most.
Moderated by:
- Judy Woodruff, Anchor and Managing Editor, PBS NewsHour
With remarks from:
- Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III, Smithsonian Institute
- David Ferriero, National Archivist of the United States
- Shelly C. Lowe, Council Member, National Endowment for the Humanities
- Alondra Bobadilla, Boston Youth Poet Laureate
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The American Academy of Arts & Sciences Presents:
Why America Needs Service, Now More Than Ever
An Our Common Purpose Event
Wednesday, March 3 from 10:30-11:45am EST/7:30-8:45am PST
COVID-19 and the fallout from the 2020 election have exposed the fragility of American democratic institutions and the importance of rebuilding the nation's civic culture. What role should national service play in repairing American democracy and in helping the nation emerge from the pandemic? Join us for a program featuring remarks by Fareed Zakaria, CNN host and author of Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World, and a panel discussion highlighting local, state, and national service programs. The conversation will examine how service can bring Americans out of their political bubbles and mend some of the inequities exposed by COVID-19.
The program will spotlight the recommendation from the American Academy report, Our Common Purpose: Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century, to create a universal expectation of national service. The Academy is working with report champion Service Year Alliance to implement this recommendation.
Featuring:
- Fareed Zakaria, Host, CNN; Columnist, The Washington Post; Contributing Editor, The Atlantic
- Josh Fryday, Chief Service Officer, State of California
- Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg. Director, Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, Tufts University; Member, Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship
- Darryl Lester, Founder and CEO, Institute for Building Communities by Design
With remarks from:
- David Oxtoby, President, American Academy of Arts & Sciences
- Kristin Bennett, Chief Strategy Officer, Service Year Alliance
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Dædalus is Now Open Access
For more than six decades, American Academy of Arts & Sciences' journal, Dædalus, has featured prominent thinkers in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences, as well as the professions and public life, writing on a wide and multidisciplinary range of topics, from anticorruption, beauty, climate, and democracy to universities, violence, wealth, and youth.
As of January 2021, working with our publishing partner The MIT Press, our journal is becoming an open access publication. Readers can now access the content without a password or payment. There are a number of past issues that relate to the work of Our Common Purpose, including our Summer 2020 issue "Religion and Democracy," edited by Robert Audi; "The Prospects & Limits of Deliberative Democracy," from the summer of 2017 co-edited by James Fishkin, an Our Common Purpose champion; and "American Democracy & the Common Good" from spring 2013, co-edited by Norm Ornstein, a member of the Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship. |
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