civic education

"When we look at what students learn about immigration, what I heard from my students from Indiana, they said they learned about Ellis Island, and that’s the last thing they learned about immigrants," said Assistant Professor Chenyu Li. "But for many Asian immigrants, they did not enter the U.S. through Ellis Island."

Indiana’s middle school students will now be taught the foundations and function of government, and their role as citizens as part of a new civics curriculum.

Indiana’s civic health leaves a lot of room for improvement – that’s the conclusion from the fourth edition of the Civic Health Index, unveiled Monday.The…