Civics

News Item #1: “Inattention 1.0 civic education stems in part from the assumption that the knowledge and skills citizens need emerge as by-products of the study of other disciplines o r as an outcome of the process of schooling itself.” (National Standards for Civics and Government, Center for Civic Education, p. x, November 1994) News Item #2: “[Wle simply must have significant and direct civics content in the upper elementary grades and, most urgently, in the middle school.” (Sunburst, newsletter of the California Council for the Social Studies, I:I. 4, October 1994) News Item #3: Civics is a required course in only six states; it is considered a popular elective in ten states; there is no requirement for civics in 34 states. (Source: National Survey of Co,Srrse Of

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