Category: John Hillen

“I think there’s two keys to civic education, and I like to think of it very broadly. The first key most people get because it can be captured in scoring and measured. And that is the extent of knowledge about our civics and our history, which is largely sometimes just a test of facts. And what you most often see is could native born Americans pass the naturalization immigration test that new immigrants have to pass to get citizenship? So, this can be measured and that’s fine. And I do think it’s important for Americans to have a common set of facts about their history…”