ACTA President Anne Neal accepts the prestigious Salvatori Prize for American Citizenship from the Heritage Foundation.
ACTA president Anne D. Neal delivers the 2014 commencement address, “Liberty and Learning,” at Colorado Christian University on May 10. She highlights how essential the Founders believed education was to maintaining our republic.
How can we improve “civics literacy” in America? There are “loud” crises, such as wars and economic recessions, and there are “quiet” ones, such as declines in voting rates. For several decades, what Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor called a “quiet crisis” has grown unabated until fairly recently in the United States. That crisis […]
The state will soon require that all high school graduates pass a simple civics test, the kind that the country requires of immigrants coming to these shores. The kids may gripe, but they gripe about the math test too. And some of us think civics and history are just as important as algebra and geometry. […]
There is a crisis of civic education in America today. For the last 20 years, study after study has shown that most Americans lack a basic understanding of the country’s history and political institutions. America’s Knowledge Crisis: A Survey of Civic Literacy, shows that college-educated Americans do only slightly better than those without a four-year […]
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