Topic: John Dewey
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The Monitor's View Rowdy politics aside, Americans are in a 'civics recession'
The presidential primaries give the impression of sharp citizenship skills among Americans. But civics learning lags. Obama education officials plan to reverse it.
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Editor's Blog The astronaut who learned how to see
Story Musgrave flew on six space shuttle missions -- and on every one of the shuttles that NASA is retiring this year. In a career of standout performances, he never forgot to savor the experience.
05/16/2011 08:38 am -
The Unbelievers
What is most interesting about contemporary atheists is not what they have in common but rather their differences.
02/22/2011 12:09 pm -
Opinion The dangers of seeing America as a 'Christian nation'
Christian traditionalists see American freedom as derived from Christian faith. That flies in the face of the historical record – and it distorts today's political debates.
07/20/2010 11:24 am -
Classic review: The Metaphysical Club
Louis Menand's fascinating history profiles a group of misfit geniuses who, in Boston in 1872, helped to shape the modern mind.
11/29/2009 12:00 am -
Opinion The emptiness of Obama's pragmatism
Policy devoid of clear ethical theory creates a nation without principle, and a nation without principle is a nation on stilts.
05/26/2009 01:00 am -
Opinion A democracy without civics?
When asked, a third of eighth-graders didn't know the significance of the Declaration of Independence.
09/18/2008 01:00 am -
Opinion The other thing Wright gets wrong
The idea of a racial learning style is a bogus concept that cheats us all.
05/01/2008 01:00 am -
Letters to the Editor
Readers write about American progressivism, tension in Pakistan, and The Beatles' music in space.
02/08/2008 12:00 am -
Opinion You want a more 'progressive' America? Careful what you wish for.
Voters should remember what happened under Woodrow Wilson.
02/05/2008 12:00 am
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