Tracking Civics Legislation, Climbing Down, and NAS Job Openings

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April Newsletter
Tracking Civics Legislation, Climbing Down,
and NAS Job Openings


** Featured Articles
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April 12, 2021


** Tracking American Civics Legislation ([link removed])
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David Randall

We're tracking proposed American civics education bills, both on the federal and state level, and have organized our data here for public use. The Civics Bill Tracker is part of NAS’s broader Civics Alliance ([link removed]) , a new coalition dedicated to defending and restoring true civics education across the United States. To join the Alliance, click here ([link removed]) .
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April 08, 2021


** Climbing Down: How the Next Generation Science Standards Diminish Scientific Literacy ([link removed])
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Jennifer Helms, James Nations, and David Randall

This report details how the popular curriculum omits basic tenets of science, including the scientific method, and provides recommendations to correct deficiencies in the NGSS.

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April 08, 2021


** Biden’s “Comprehensive Review” of Title IX ([link removed])
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NAS

The Biden Administration is setting the stage for a reversal of Title IX's foundling due process protections.

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April 07, 2021


** Scapegoating 101 ([link removed])
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NAS

NAS opposes the recent actions of several law schools that have disciplined faculty members for having pointed to the below average academic performance of minority students.


** Announcements
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** NAS is Hiring! ([link removed])
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The National Association of Scholars has two job openings—Leader Researcher: DEI in the Sciences Project; Project Lead: Keeping the Republic. To read more and download the two job descriptions, click here ([link removed]) .

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** Scholars Announce Launch of The Civics Alliance ([link removed])
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NAS is pleased to announce The Civics Alliance, a new coalition dedicated to defending and restoring true civics education across the United States. Click to read more and join the Alliance ([link removed]) .

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** Application Process Now Open for the AHI's Washington Program on National Security ([link removed])
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Applications are now open for Alexander Hamilton Institute's acclaimed Washington Program on National Security (WaPoNS) ([link removed]) in Washington, DC, June 16 to 30. Click here to read more and apply ([link removed]) .

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** History Camp America Call for Speakers ([link removed])
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History camp is looking for our nation’s most interesting and informative history presenters—authors, researchers, and teachers, historians, Park Rangers, and docents. Click to read more and apply ([link removed]) .

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** Government Education Jobs ([link removed])
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Every month the National Association of Scholars will post a list of U.S. Government jobs pertaining to the education sector. Click here to access our excel spreadsheet of current job opportunities ([link removed]) . (Updated April 05, 2021).


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** Reckonings: Numerals, Cognition, and History ([link removed])
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Join author Stephen Chrisomalis and moderator Stephen Houston for a conversation about Reckonings: Numerals, Cognition, and History. In Reckonings, Chrisomalis considers how humans past and present have used numerals.


** Media
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** 1675-1678 - King Philip's War ([link removed])
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Watch the webinar recording and discover how King Philip's War shaped the character of colonial Americans, featuring Jason Warren, Philip Ranlet, and Michael Tougias.

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** Sub-Standard Science ([link removed])
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Watch the launch event of our report, Climbing Down, our analysis of the Next Generation Science Standards, featuring James Nations, David Randall, Shepard Barbash, Duke Pesta, and Ze'ev Wurman.

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** 1776: The American Character in History and Teaching ([link removed])
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Listen in as Conor Friedersdorf, Jason Ross, Bob Woodson, and Bruce Gilley discuss why 1776 is such an important date, and how the principles exercised and spoken in that year are inclusive of America's full diversity.

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** The Mayflower Compact ([link removed])
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Watch our webinar on the long struggle for liberty brought about by social contracts throughout history, the thinkers of the time, and other topics that influenced The Mayflower Compact and the American republic. Featuring Daniel Dreisbach and Mark David Hall.


** Member Publications
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** Roland Alum
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"Recordando a Álvaro Ínsua, un cubano desconocido y olvidado ([link removed]) " [Remembering Álvaro Ínsua—An unknown and forgotten Cuban]
CubaNet. February 19, 2021.


** Jay Bergman
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"Opinion: Perception, reality of racism in America at odds ([link removed]) "
Connecticut Post. April 09, 2021.


** John A. Budny
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"COVID-19, hydroxychloroquine and the importance of disease progression ([link removed]) "
Toxicology Research. 2021, 1-5.


** Claudio Cioffi-Revilla
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"The Scope of Computational Social Science ([link removed]) " [in Handbook of Computational Social Science]
London, UK: Routledge. February 2021.

"Nuclear Deterrence Theory in the Early Cold War, 1945-1962 ([link removed]) " [in Oxford Encyclopedia of International Studies]
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. September 2020.


** Robert Maranto [with Martha Bradley-Dorsey]
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"Bureaucracy Has Conquered Schools. Joe Biden Won’t Fix It ([link removed]) "
National Review. March 21, 2021.


** Margarita A. Mooney
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Love of Learning: Seven Dialogues on the Liberal Arts ([link removed]) [forthcoming]
Providence, RI: Cluny Media. June 15, 2021.


** Juliana Geran Pilon
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"It’s All in the Telling ([link removed]) " [review]
Connecticut Post. April 09, 2021.

"Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization by Samuel Gregg ([link removed]) " [review]
Cato Journal. Spring/Summer 2020.

"Radicals, Revolutionaries, and Terrorists ([link removed]) " [review]
Terrorism and Political Violence. Vol. 32, No. 4, 2020.


** Philip Carl Salzman
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"How ‘Inclusion’ in Canadian Universities Becomes Exclusion ([link removed]) "
The Epoch Times. April 09, 2021.

"From Postcolonial Theory to Toxic Masculinity: What Students Learn at Canadian Universities ([link removed]) "
The Epoch Times. March 22, 2021.


** Howard S. Schwartz
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"Racism as Absence ([link removed]) "
New English Review. October 2020.

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