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Civil rights curriculum aims to shape future leaders
The curriculum teaches nonviolence, justice and civic leadership as only 22% of eighth-graders scored proficient in civics, Daniels said.
- Ambassador Andrew Young endorsed 'Civil Rights: A Global Perspective,' a digital curriculum from McGraw Hill designed to teach students Martin Luther King's principles of nonviolence, justice, and perseverance.
- Only 22% of eighth-grade students nationwide scored proficient in civics according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, prompting curriculum developer Matthew Daniels to address the decline in civic education.
- Recalling his work with King sixty years ago, Young noted the Civil Rights Movement achieved results through disciplined, strategic action—a methodology the curriculum now teaches to train new citizen leaders.
- The Ambassador Young Fellows Program at Anderson University in South Carolina brings students and educators from diverse backgrounds together to study these principles as an antidote to division and violence.
- Young emphasized that fairness remains essential to social progress, stating "competition is necessary in a free enterprise system. But to give one group of people an advantage over the other has not worked.
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Civil rights curriculum aims to shape future leaders
(The Center Square) – It was the winter of 1962. Demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama, came to see Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for his support in organizing a protest in the segregated city where Black people were forced to sit…
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