ACTA in the NewsCivic Education
Americans famously are lovers of liberty. This year we celebrate 250 years of enjoying historically unprecedented civil, economic, and religious liberty. Liberty, though, is an easily misunderstood concept, and our country’s 250th anniversary is...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) is proud to announce the release of A Nation Born in a Day: Visions of the American Founding, a new collection of essays...
ACTA President Michael Poliakoff welcomes Dr. Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, president emeritus of George Washington University and member of ACTA’s National Commission on American History and Civic Education. A distinguished university leader, Dr. Trachtenberg examines the systemic breakdown of American...
On this episode of Higher Ed Now Civics Edition, ACTA President Michael Poliakoff moderates a bracing and illuminating conversation with Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and former U.S....
ACTA in the NewsCivic Education
The Cato Institute recently asked Americans seven basic civics questions as the country turned 250. A majority of Gen Z answered only one of them correctly. In fact, 61% of adults under 30 could not say what the anniversary marks,...
ACTA in the NewsCivic Education
In early 2022 Philanthropy Roundtable published “What Ever Happened to U.S. History 101?,” a discussion of the abysmal failure of U.S. colleges and universities to ensure students’ course schedules include at least a basic survey course...
On this episode of Higher Ed Now Civics Edition, ACTA President Michael Poliakoff speaks with Michael Auslin, the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Professor Auslin...
ACTA in the NewsCivic Education
“Are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world?” asked President Ronald Reagan as he left office in 1989. Twenty-seven...
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