Education / Youth
The Value of Pontificating
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Education / Youth on August 6th, 2011
I’ve been scanning the local news I missed during the past month, and duly noted coverage of a recent speech by Melina Kennedy on education. Kennedy (no relation–honest!) has focused her mayoral campaign on public safety, education and economic development, and has been delivering substantive proposals on those and related issues. In her education speech, [...]
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Civic Literacy: Charting the Dimensions and Consequences of a Civic Deficit
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Academic Papers, Education / Youth on June 6th, 2011
Sheila Suess Kennedy Professor of Law & Public Policy Erin Braun, MPA Student Adriene Tynes, MPA Student School of Public & Environmental Affairs Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis Abstract Available data gives evidence of a widespread lack of constitutional competence and civic literacy in the United States. The consequences of this ignorance are profound; the [...]
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The Politics We Deserve
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Education / Youth, Local Government on May 30th, 2011
My speech to the Annual Meeting of the Jewish Community Relations Council. ___________ We have just emerged from one of the most depressing sessions of the Indiana legislature I can remember. It was anti-woman, anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-teacher, anti-public-employee…We passed a mean-spirited and largely unconstitutional immigration bill. We defunded Planned Parenthood, in violation of federal law, [...]
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Hate to be a Broken Record, but….
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Education / Youth on May 26th, 2011
This morning, the American Constitution Society blog referenced a recent report from the Associated Press: “The Associated Press has provided new details about a push by the nation’s largest Tea Party umbrella group to teach the Constitution in public schools using materials from an organization that promotes the Constitution as a divinely inspired document. As [...]
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