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		<title>Don’t Call them Underdogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a review of a new PBS documentary about urban debate leagues for Education Next. It was published today, and it begins: You may have seen a movie in which teenagers experience grave injustice and then enter a prestigious competition where they prove to the world that they are smart. The competition might be [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35350">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What Counts As Success? Assessing The Impact Of Civics In Higher Ed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On February 18, the Alliance for Civics in the Academy hosted&#160;a webinar on &#8220;What Counts as Success? Assessing the Impact of Civics in Higher Ed&#8221;&#160;with Trygve Throntveit, Rachel Wahl, Joseph Kahne, and&#160;me. We discussed some of the advantages of developing reliable and consistent measurements of civic education, particularly the opportunity to learn from data and [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35323">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>a resource for students on social movements and activism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recorded interview with the Story Preservation Initiative, I discuss &#8220;landmark cases and civic turning points&#8212;including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Brown v. Board of Education, the United Farm Workers boycott, and Watergate&#8212;to illustrate how people came together to reinforce core democratic principles of equality, justice, and the rule of law.&#8221; This recording and related [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35046">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>a conversation about civics in Chinese traditions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On December 10, the Alliance for Civics in the Academy hosted a webinar on &#8220;Comparative Civics: Beyond Western Civ&#8221;&#160;with Fordham professor Dongxian Jiang, University of Chicago professor Shadi Bartsch, Nanyang Technical University professor Simon Sihang Luo, and University of Chicago student Jessie Wang. I was the moderator. The title of the event suggests our original [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=35058">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>civic education webinar</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 13:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoyed this recent discussion of civic education in colleges and universities with Josiah Ober, Jenna Silber Storey, Mary Clark, and our moderator Debra Satz. I thought the questions from the audience were particularly interesting. In case you are interested in the Alliance, this is the website. The next webinar will be &#8220;Out of Many, [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34673">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>design challenges for civics in higher education</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Educating for American Democracy (EAD) initiative works to improve k12 history and civic education. One of EAD&#8217;s contributions is a list of five &#8220;Design Challenges.&#8221; Each challenge names tensions between a pair of valid principles. The tensions are not resolvable. Instead, we encourage teachers (and everyone else involved in civics and history education) to [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34614">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Embracing Difficult Conversations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 13:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a recording of the plenary session entitled Embracing Difficult Conversations: The Intersection of Ethics and Civics Education at the Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization (PLATO) conference in June. The panelists were: Sarah Stitzlein, University of Cincinnati; Winston&#160;C. Thompson,&#160;the Casto Professor at The Ohio State University; Jana Mohr Lone, PLATO; Allison Cohen,&#160;a teacher at [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34300">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Educating for American Democracy: the work continues</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34039</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 16:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Educating for American Democracy sent the following message yesterday: We write with the good news that the work of EAD very much continues, even in these rapidly changing times. As of June 1, the Educating for American Democracy Consortium will transition from being housed at&#160;iCivics&#160;to the&#160;Adams Presidential Center, based in Quincy, MA. The Adams Presidential [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=34039">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization (PLATO) conference</title>
		<link>https://peterlevine.ws/?p=33969</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 18:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are hosting the biannual PLATO conference this June 27-28 at Tufts University&#8217;s Tisch College of Civic Life. PLATO is mostly devoted to teaching philosophy in K12 schools. Philosophy is not a priority in the USA, unlike in many European countries where it is taught (by that name) to large numbers of students in standardized [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=33969">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>building a democracy helpdesk</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 15:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[advocating civic education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This one-minute video introduces a project that Tufts engineering faculty and students and I have begun, with Better Together America and some pro bono advice from the Harvard Law School Transactional Law Clinics. In essence, we are trying to improve Americans&#8217; know-how for launching and sustaining organizations, on the theory that civic organizations preserve democracy. [&#8230;] <a href="https://peterlevine.ws/?p=33776">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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