David J. Bobb In 1957, the United States had its “Sputnik moment.” As the Soviet Sputnik satellite orbited the Earth, Americans became fearful that we were falling behind technologically. The response ...

Continuing to teach civics in this way was inappropriate, critics said, given the variety of experiences and backgrounds that students brought to the classroom. The word “assimilation,” once ...

Teaching history, he led discussions about how the founding fathers’ backgrounds—white ... The lessons made civic education concrete for them, West said. Now, though, as an elementary school ...