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OPINION: We did not need the Nation’s ‘Report Card’ to tell us we must invest in civic education

The Hechinger Report

government, and only 29 percent said they had a teacher whose primary responsibility is teaching civics. Eighth graders who learned about civics in a designated class outperformed those where it was embedded in another class (157 to 153 average scale score), while those with no civics instruction scored just 143.

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