High school civics

by David SafierFriend of the blog and Goldwater Institute guy Matthew Ladner put out a scathing indictment of the way we teach, or don't teach, civics in schools, which Rhonda Bodfield at the Star picked up this morning. The basic story is, high schools students can't pass a U.S. citizenship test.I won't fall into the trap of trying to defend schools by saying it's fine students don't know very much. I want schools to be much, much better and students to know and understand much, much more. But