Robert Reich: Resurrecting The Common Good, A Civic Education For All – OpEd

Today in my series on the common good, I’m proposing that our schools reinstate what used to be called “civic education.”

When, in 1961, I heard John F. Kennedy’s admonition that we ask what we can do for our nation, I was attending a small public high school in upstate New York. Part of the required curriculum was...