Civic Education: Essential for Sustaining U.S. Democracy Webinar
Friday, January 21, 2022 | 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. ET
Co-hosted by: CEE and CivXNow
Join the CivXNow Coalition and The Center for Educational Equity at Teachers College, Columbia University for a jointly hosted webinar featuring four of the country’s leading civic education scholars and researchers. Panelists summarized the latest research findings on the links between civic education and civic engagement later in life, and discussed the critical role that civic education must play at this time in sustaining our democracy.
Panelists:
• David E. Campbell, Packey J. Dee Professor of American Democracy, University of Notre Dame
• Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, Newhouse Director, Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, of CIRCLE, Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life, Tufts University
• Meira Levinson, Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society, Harvard University
• Jane C. Lo, Assistant Professor, Department of Teacher Education, Michigan State University.
Moderated by: Rashid Duroseau, Civics Program Director for Democracy Prep Public Schools