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...professor of public policy, served as dean of the Kennedy School from 1989 to 1991 and has advised leaders including Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. His newest undertaking, “Social Change: A Joint Project of Harvard and Manchester,” announced yesterday, involves transatlantic comparisons of civic engagement given the evolving workplace, increased immigration, and changing attitudes to religion, among other topics. A member of both the British Academy and the U.S. National Academy of Science, Putnam was recently awarded the 2006 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science, one of the most prestigious honors in the field...
...expectation that all students engage with American history hearkens back to Harvard’s 1945 Red Book program, which emphasized the inculcation of American civic values...
...Education’s Failure to Teach America’s History and Institutions.” Although the report uses attention-grabbing language to highlight what it has deemed a failure of higher education, the ISI fails to convincingly support its central recommendation: that improved (and required) college civics courses are the best solution to the problem it has uncovered. The ISI offered a 60-question survey to 14,000 students at 50 colleges and universities. The questions, which were not publicly released on the Institute’s website, address four topics: American history, government, America?...
...Civic involvement is always a vital duty, but this year campaigns are of particular importance. Although this is not a presidential election year, the stakes in national politics are almost as high as they were in 2004. The election will broadly impact our nation’s future, shaping everything from environmental policy to tax policy, from foreign relations to social welfare programs. Pollsters are predicting that there are enough races that are too close to call that one or both houses of Congress could change hands...
...Review, the Harvard Political Union, and the IOP’s Policy Program, respectively. Students can also impart their passion for public service on others, be it by training Harvard employees to become citizens as a citizenship tutor or teaching Boston students about being an informed citizens in the CIVICS program. Beyond Boston, students raise awareness about politics among young people through the National Campaign for Civic Engagement, and they take the political pulse of youth in America through the IOP Survey...