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Knowledge of the constitutional principles of America is important for students. But the ability to engage in rational public discourse that addresses questions pertinent to the life of the republic is even more so.

Put the proposed new California history-social science framework together with the College Board’s leftist Advanced Placement history curriculum, and K-12 education in this country could soon be a near-exclusively leftist affair.

Disagreeing with others, even passionately disagreeing with others, without rhetorically vaporizing them is part of what it means to live as citizens in a republic.

Mary Rice Hasson on complementarity in the church; George Weigel on Cardinal Francis George’s legacy; Bruce Cole on civics education; Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry on a surprising revolution in France; and much more.

The release of the U.S. Department of Education’s latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) for history, civics and geography shows that we are raising another generation of historical and civic amnesiacs.

The Faith Angle Forum is a semi-annual conference which brings together a select group of 20 nationally respected journalists with 3-5…

The undermining of the AP United States history curriculum is typical of the progressives’ work in our schools.

The College Board’s new AP U.S. History framework would force a leftist tilt onto high school U.S. history courses.

A true compromise on immigration policy must be designed not to meet the political requirements of building an elite coalition, but to address the problems of our immigration system and the needs of the country.

The Gang of Eight immigration bill is now moving through the Senate. But to be considered a responsible reform of our system, the bill would need some significant amendments—to make it more responsive to our economic realities, our civic obligations, and our commitment to the rule of law.

In his new book released today, Spreading the Wealth: How Obama Is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities, EPPC Senior Fellow Stanley Kurtz exposes how President Obama, in a second term, would use a stealth “regionalist” agenda to implement a massive redistribution of wealth from the suburbs to the cities.

The Ethics and Public Policy Center is delighted to announce that Dr. Bruce Cole, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities from 2001 to 2009, is joining EPPC as a Senior Fellow in order to continue his expert work on the teaching of American history and civics and on private and federal cultural policy.