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JMC President Mike Andrews featured in the Tampa Bay Times
Conservatives Can't Afford to Give Up on Florida's Colleges 

Working with our professor and university partners, JMC's K-12 pilot project in Florida has been a driving force for our national teacher education efforts. But some conservative donors are wary of investing in colleges today, both in Florida and around the country. 

JMC President Mike Andrews acknowledges these concerns in the Tampa Bay Times and gives reason for why hope remains.

"Conservatives have long complained that colleges aren’t merely bastions of liberalism — they’re actively hostile to anyone on the right.

In a recent tweet, state congressman Spencer Roach slammed the “Marxist professors and students” on Florida’s college campuses.

Besides urging young people not to attend college, some prominent conservatives are even calling for defunding universities, seizing their endowments, and creating “off-shore” institutes that aren’t affiliated with colleges at all. Their frustration is certainly understandable. But giving up on the university system would be a colossal mistake."

Read the Full Article in the Tampa Bay Times >> 
K-12 Civic Education Update
Florida Teacher Education Pilot Project to Reach 6,800 Teachers Over Two Years
The American Civics and History Initiative (ACHI), a joint pilot project between the Jack Miller Center, the Ashbrook Center, and the Bill of Rights Institute, is hosting teacher education programs across the state of Florida this summer. 

Designed for 6th - 12th grade teachers, each organization provides content-based professional development to help teachers deepen their knowledge of America's history and founding principles and design engaging lessons for their students.  
This summer, we began working with the Florida Department of Education and the Florida Education Foundation to offer more programs to teachers around the state.

These programs complement our summer teacher institutes led by JMC professor partners at Ave Maria University, Florida Atlantic University, and the University of West Florida.

ACHI aims to reach 6,800 Florida social studies and civics teachers in two years and produce a successful model we can take to states around the nation.

This groundbreaking project in Florida joins our K-12 teacher initiatives in five other regions around the country, and we are growing every year. We are grateful to our teachers who are doing the extra work through these programs so they can do more to enrich the next generation.
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JMC Faculty Partner writes for The Constitutionalist 
 Susan McWilliams Barndt: The July 4 Project

Why don’t we celebrate September 3? Why do we celebrate July 4?

From the mouths of babes: My 10-year-old recently posed these questions to me over breakfast. She had been studying the American Revolution with her fourth-grade class. These questions, she said, were bugging her and some of her friends.

After all, the American colonies didn’t really get independence until September 3, 1783, when representatives of Great Britain and the United States signed the Treaty of Paris that formally ended the Revolutionary War and set the boundaries of a new nation.

By comparison, on July 4, 1776, “there were just a bunch of guys telling everybody what they wanted.”

So why would we call July 4 “Independence Day” and set off the fireworks then? And why doesn’t anybody but historians and fourth-graders remember September 3?..."
Quotes from JMC Teacher Alumni 
 “I would definitely recommend [JMC Programs] to other teachers for two reasons. First, it was centered around content and investigating that content through primary sources. Second, it gave me a chance to interact with teachers across the state. A lot of “education” institutes do not focus on content, and rarely focus on primary sources."   – Justin Halterman, Roanoke County, Virginia  
 
Justin Halterman is a high school teacher from Roanoke County, Virginia, and a participant in the Founding Civics Initiative at the University of Virginia. 
The battle for the soul of our nation will be won or lost in our classrooms ™  — Jack Miller
 
The Jack Miller Center works to revitalize education in America’s history and its founding principles. Our goal is that every student learns the ideas that informed the founding of our nation so that they may preserve our freedoms for future generations.

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.
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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.
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