Nation-Building at Home: Civics 101
December 6, 2009
Facing History and Ourselves' Associate Director, Dr. Martin Sleeper, was interviewed for a Christian Science Monitor article focused on civic education titled, "Nation-building at home: Civics 101."
"The idea, Mr. Sleeper says, is to educate students to know not only how to raise their voices, but when. The curriculum focuses on bystanders in the Holocaust and teaches students how to be 'upstanders,' who speak up in the face of prejudice or oppression. 'It's not only a program in civic education, but in moral education,' Sleeper says."
