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Mitch Daniels: The Heart of the Academic Enterprise
Focusing on the role of higher education in preparing young Americans for citizenship, ACTA's president Michael Poliakoff speaks with Mitch Daniels.
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In ACTA’s 10th annual What Will They Learn? report, we found that only 17% of colleges and universities require their students to take a course in U.S. Government or History. The consequences are alarming: Many students and adult citizens cannot answer basic questions on American government. In our 2015 survey, over 10% of college graduates thought that Judith Sheindlin—”Judge Judy”—was a U.S. Supreme Court justice.
Focusing on the role of higher education in preparing young Americans for citizenship, ACTA's president Michael Poliakoff speaks with Mitch Daniels.
ACTA's president Michael Poliakoff speaks with the distinguished scholar and education leader, Joshua Dunn, who took on leadership of the recently established Institute of American Civics at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in June, 2023.
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