During civic learning week, let’s push for national progress toward a more perfect union

During civic learning week, let’s push for national progress toward a more perfect union

Two hundred and forty-nine years ago, the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged their lives, fortunes and honor to what has become the world’s longest-standing experiment in constitutional democracy. Yet as we prepare to celebrate America at 250, warning signs abound that we may be failing their charge.National pride in America is at a record low, coinciding with desperately low scores on the nation’s civics report card from the …