Posts Tagged civic literacy
What We Don’t Know DOES Hurt Us…
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Education / Youth, Uncategorized on January 8th, 2012
The other day, I was grading a research paper produced by a graduate student who shares my concerns over civic literacy. The paper included a comprehensive review of available research on the topic, much of which confirmed what we had already known about the American public’s appalling deficit in basic knowledge of our government and [...]
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The Body Politic
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Constitution on November 10th, 2011
Tonight, I’ll chair a Spirit and Place Panel on “The Body Politic” at the Indiana Statehouse. I hope some of you can attend; for those who can’t, here are my introductory remarks. I’d like to introduce the panel: Eric Meslin is Associate Dean and Director of the Center for Bioethics at the IU School of [...]
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Pathetic Policy Discourse
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Religious Liberty on June 17th, 2011
There are a lot of examples of what happens when those making policy don’t know what they are talking about, but here’s one that just annoys the hell out of me every time it comes up. The New York legislature is preparing to vote on whether the state will recognize same-sex marriage. The Times reports [...]
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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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What Ted Said
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Education / Youth on May 23rd, 2011
My upcoming IBJ column. Right now, Americans are deeply involved in one of our periodic debates about government spending and the budget deficit. Important as that is, I am more concerned about our civic deficit—the widespread lack of basic constitutional literacy. In these pages a couple of weeks ago, recently-retired Indiana Justice Ted Boehm made [...]
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