JMC News Update
See our latest progress advancing civic education and your investment at work
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America's Changing Educational Landscape
With heightened political tensions, Americans turn to the classroom for answers
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Over the past year, a lot has changed in civic education. Survey after survey shows that Americans have alarmingly low levels of basic civic knowledge, civic discourse, and public trust in government.
Parents, lawmakers, and even students are waking up to the dangers of a weak—or even false—education in America's founding principles and history.
It's time for change. In 2021, JMC took big steps forward to improve civic education in our nation's classrooms.
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See below for a few updates on how the Jack Miller Center is making an impact. For more information, check out our 2021 Year in Review to read more about our progress and see civic education in action.
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JMC Expands K-12 Programming to New States
Providing Teachers with Content and Resources to Give Their Students a Great Civics Education
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JMC is leading the charge to change how our country teaches civics and history at the K-12 level.
JMC works directly with teachers to enrich their knowledge of America's founding principles and history.
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In 2021, we made great progress at the K-12 level. In addition to new graduate courses, a new K-12 teacher resource site, and conducting 76 content-based professional development programs, we also expanded our statewide program for all social studies teachers in Florida.
As a result of the great success of the American Civics and History Initiative in Florida, we are taking this initiative to three more states: Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
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Steady Change on Campus
JMC Expands National Reach with 11 New Partner Programs
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As Tom Kelly, JMC’s Director of Civic Education Outreach, wrote in his recent feature for Newsweek: If you want better K-12 civics, look to higher education. Our universities are the source of some of the best—and some of the worst—teaching of America's founding principles and history.
Our faculty partners are a central part of our mission, from undergraduate teaching to programs for K-12 educators.
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In 2021, JMC partnered with 11 new campus programs across the country. Many of these programs, like the Zavala Program for Constitutional Studies at Baylor, offer students an opportunity to engage with our founding principles outside of the classroom. Our goal is to keep establishing more and more of these programs so they can make a long-standing impact on campus.
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Powerful New Online Resources
A dynamic tool for K-12 teachers, professors, and students
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In 2021, JMC created several new online resources to bring new resources on America's founding principles and history to more educators, students, and the interested public. Here are a few highlights:
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- A new resource center for K-12 teachers with key readings and helpful lesson plans.
- A webinar series to help professors advance in their careers and build new programs on campus
- A new Instagram account featuring classic American art and "This Day in History" facts
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In addition to our already extensive online resources, JMC will launch a free state-of-the-art online library to give readers the ability to read, comment, share, and search the key texts in the American Political Tradition in 2022.
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Your donation will help get civic education back into our classrooms.
We need your support. A donation from you can enable more students to learn about our nation's history and its founding principles.
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Do you know someone who would be interested in improving civic education? Please forward this email or share on your social media!
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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.
www.jackmillercenter.org
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