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October 27, 2023 29 mins

Civics 101 is a podcast refresher course on the basics of how the U.S. government works, born from the brain trust at New Hampshire Public Radio and hosted by Hannah McCarthy and Nick Capodice. This is the second part in their series about the state of civic education in the US. 

In this episode, TeachLab host Justin Reich joins the Civics 101 team  to talk about how teachers choose what to teach, so-called "divisive concepts laws," and how we can approach disagreements without falling prey to "division actors."

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Resources and Links

Check out Civics 101: A Podcast, a production of New Hampshire Public Radio

Order Justin Reich’s new book Iterate: The Secret to Innovation in Schools

Click here to see a map of all the states that have passed legislation limiting what teachers can say regarding race, sex, gender, etc. 

Click here to see the Interactive Roadmap by Educating for American Democracy.

Watch our documentary film We Have to Do Something Different
 

Transcript 

https://sonix.ai/share/XBF9ue1HSi1uek4spV3fHohu
 

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