Anderson: Florida's new civics curriculum is worth celebrating
A rising number of people in Florida have become increasingly concerned about the state of civic education – tales of students who regularly fail citizenship tests (required of all new citizens); who do not know what the three branches of government are, much less what they allege to do; who cannot name the current governor, or even the president – to say nothing of their member of Congress. They do not know the fundamentals of what the Constitution is, why the Declaration was “declared” – or why so many risked their lives to kick the British authority out of this part of North Ame...