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How to Stop Fighting: Home
A Seven-Step Interactive Tutorial for People Involved in Relationship Conflicts
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Better Together America: Another Example of Massively Parallel Democracy Building at Work
A report on Better Together America's first Hub Accelerator Workshop -- an inspiring get together of people from around the United States who are working in a wide variety of ways to strengthen civic engagement in their local communities.
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Limited Civic Skills
As we have often said in these pages, "democracy is not a spectator sport." Strong democracies require strong civic engagement. But fewer and fewer Americans have the civic knowledge or skills to participate effectively.
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Civic Knowledge and Skills That We Can Use to Help Ourselves and Our Society More Constructively Handle Intractable Conflict
In order to contribute effectively to this massively parallel effort, individuals need to strengthen their understanding of the way in which democratic societies handle conflict and options for handling those conflicts more constructively. (This knowledge helps handle interperonsal conflicts more constructively, too.)
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Conflict Educators / Trainers
Conflict Educators and Trainers help speed the flow of information on more constructive ways of handling conflict that show people that there are better ways of preventing and solving conflict than fighting (sometimes violently) about it
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Civic Skill Builders
Civic Skill Builders teach citizens about the advantages of democratic systems and how to use those systems to constructively handle the large number of difficult conflicts that inevitably occur in any modern society.
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Democracy and the Epistemic Commons
The ultimate responsibility for good governance in a democracy falls to the voting citizenry, which can only exercise this duty well when it has accurate information about the world.
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Confronting Controversial Issues in the Classroom
Discussions of controversial issues are frequently prescribed by theorists, professors, and civic organizations, but most school systems are reluctant. Here's how to do it well.
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Civics Renewal Network
The Civics Renewal Network is an alliance of 37 nonprofit, nonpartisan organizations that provide free online classroom resources for civics education.
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CivXNow
A national cross-partisan coalition of over 260 organizations focused on improving our nation's K-12 in and out-of-school civic education.
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Educating for American Democracy (EAD)
EAD is a call to action to invest in strengthening history and civic learning in K-12, and to ensure that civic learning opportunities are delivered equitably throughout the country.
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AllSides for Schools
AllSides provides tools and activities teachers can use with students to help cultivate their skills and proficiency in bias awareness, news literacy, and dialogue across differences.
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DIYcivity
Civity launches a new Do-It Yourself Page with tipcs for practicing civity, seeding civity, and resources for doing both.
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Civics Alliance
A national coalition of organizations and citizens dedicated to preserving and improving America's civics education.
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Why We Need Civics
A compelling argument for strengthening the teaching of "civics" -- the underlying commonality that binds together US democracy's diverse citizenry.
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Why We Need Civics
A compelling argument for strengthening the teaching of "civics" -- the underlying commonality that binds together US democracy's diverse citizenry.
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America's road to healthier political discourse starts on campus
An eloquent defense of the importance of cultivating robust political debate on campus and a look at an organization that is trying to promote this kind of debate.
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By Abandoning Civics, Colleges Helped Create the Culture Wars
An argument that a big part of our hyper-polarized politics is the direct result of the failure of our educational institutions to teach the civic skills and values upon which democracy depends.
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In search of 'civicians' --- the team parents of a healthy democracy
The story about a small-scale effort to to promote civic functioning -- an effort that could be applied much more broadly.
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Preparing the next generation of citizens requires bringing back civics
An update on a critically important component of the broader effort to defend and strengthen democracy -- civic education.
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Civic Thought: A Proposal for University-Level Civic Education
An argument for a vastly expanded program of civic education at the collegiate level. We desperately need such programs (provided that they reflect a bipartisan vision of what democracy should be).
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Follow the Left's Example to Reform Higher Ed
A thoughtful proposal for cultivating a new academic field -- civics studies with the mission of figuring out how to make democracy work.