I’m Goldie Blumenstyk, a senior writer at The Chronicle covering innovation in and around academe. Here’s what I’m thinking about this week. Your ideas on how higher ed can help repair American democracy. Last week I dug into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences report “ Our Common Purpose: Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century” and asked how you thought higher ed could contribute. This week I’ll share some of the comments and resources you sent me. Comments first, and for starters, the importance of science education as civic education. In the last newsletter, I quoted one of the co-chairs of the report, Danielle Allen, noting the paucity of federal spending on civic education compared with STEM in elementary and secondary schools. Several folks from the sciences found fault in that comparison, notably Jay Labov, a 23-year veteran of the science-education program at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and before that, a professor of biology at Colby College.