There are many factors contributing to the weakening of our civic character. Only one institution can help us reclaim a fuller appreciation of the duties and obligations of citizenship in a democracy – our public school system. Click here to read more.
John Goodlad is president of the Institute for Educational Inquiry in Seattle. He has held professorships at Emory University, the University of Chicago, UCLA (where he served as dean of the Graduate School of Education from 1967-1983), and the University of Washington.