DMHS+GoRo+Aff

=Inherency =

====Civic Education has been footnoted in the squo – there has been a focus on "college-readiness" and creates disparities among the youth. ====

RICHARD D. **KAHLENBERG****AND** CLIFFORD **JANEY** NOV 10, 20**16** []

Yet in recent years, democracy has been given short shrift in American public schooling

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nondemocratic countries in order to appreciate what they might otherwise take for granted.

=Cede the Political =

====Lack of civic education has led to a lack of political involvement – our democratic system is in jeopardy ====

**Chan 4/2**/17 (Adam, opinion contributor at the University of Chicago's Undergraduate Political Review, "America Fails in Civic Education", The Gate, 4/02/2017, accessed 6/26/2017, []  DL

The Problem: The recent election has brought this country to a crossroads. Institutions

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that their education should promote professional goals, rather than facilitate civic participation.\

Scenario 1 is pragmatic reform
====The left has disengaged from the political and splintered the majority necessary to make meaningful changes —- Only civic engagement to coalesce the left will prevent fascism and the right ====

AT: Pessimism, ID politics K's and Neolib K

**Illing 17**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Sean Illing is the Interviews Writer for Vox. Before publishing things on the Internet

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">AND

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Achieving our Country. Perhaps the left would do well to embrace it.

====<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Rise of fascism demands a MATERIAL and PRAGMATIC response – Coalescing the left to prevent abuse to vulnerables populations should be the primary decision calculus ====

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Framing card vs policy strats – addressing vulnerable communities comes first

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">AT: ANY K w/ abstract alterantive

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**Keenan and El-Enany 12/2/16** []  Nadine El-Enany and Sarah Keenan are Lecturers in Law, Birkbeck Law School, University of London

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">For some time we have been witnessing the rise of racist nationalism and fascism in

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">AND

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">solidarity, there can be no lasting, transformative, progressive political change.

====<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A new form of Civic education is key to prevent a laundry list of existential impacts ====

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**Beutel 12** Dr. Wolfgang Beutel is the managing director (CEO) and academic head of the Competition for Citizenship "Democratic Action" at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena. "Schools, Curriculum and Civic Education for Building Democratic Citizens" ( []

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Civic education is and will be a necessary charge in schools. However, it

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">AND

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">beyond, the community (cities, villages, or school and communities).

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">Scenario 2 is Dissent
====<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Civic education is key to holding the government accountable and dissenting from it, while using participation as a tool to improve the well-being of communities. Absent education, people become complacent to demagogues and nationalist rhetoric. ====

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**Branson, 98** (Margaret, Associate Director, [] , September 1998, "The Role of Civic Education"

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I. Introduction

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Societies have long had an interest in the ways in which

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">AND

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">and nation, if they are informed, effective, and responsible citizens.

====<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Civic education informs students of pluralistic political views – this creates more solidarity to arouse tactical reform. Absent education, politics become polarized among different levels, creating policies that will inevitably exclude bodies ====

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">NOV. 8 20**16** 10:29 AM By Jeffrey **Guhin** []

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">As Election Day draws near and many of us make plans to vote, we

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">AND

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">assume it's not as much fun as other things I could be doing.

=<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.3em;">Plan =

====<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The USFG should use Race to the Top grants to provide financial incentives for primary and secondary schools to adopt C3 standards for Civic education. ====

=<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 1.3em;">Solvency =

====<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Current models of education place priority to content and memorization that is inapplicable in the current political climate. The C3 framework places an emphasis on skills that bolsters students' critical thinking to provide them tools to use in civic life. ====

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**Griffin and Swan 13** (Susan and Kathy, "Fact Sheet College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework For Social Studies State Standards" 9-13-13. []

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">What is the College, Career and Civic Life (C3) Framework? The

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">AND

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">them to traverse successfully the worlds of college, career, and civic life

====<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Race to the top funding is key; empirics prove its reliability. States are more likely to adopt national legislature, and frequent government screening ensures that states follow regulations. ====

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**Howell, 15** (William G., "Results of President Obama's Race to the Top", [] , fall 2015)

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">No single test provides incontrovertible evidence about its causal effects. The overall findings,

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">AND

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">the aftermath of the competitions, was accomplished in less than five years.

====<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Federal and philanthropic funding are directly relational – Federal funding is key to get private money on board ====

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**Silverbrook 15,** (Julie Silverbrook is Executive Director of The Constitutional Sources Project and Washington Times writer, "The crisis in civic education funding", Washington Times, 9/8/15, [] , LW, accessed 7/7/17)

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">If you pick up a newspaper, magazine, or academic journal around Constitution Day

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">AND

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">of organizations working to ensure that our nation's citizens are informed and engaged thro

====<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Reliance on state governments exacerbates racism in low-incomes schools; disparities in funding disproportionately impact these schools ====

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">**Robinson 13** (Kimberly J., Professor, University of Richmond School of Law, The High Cost of The Nation's Current Framework for Education Federalism, Wake Forest Law Review 287, 2013, p. 319-322)

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Nevertheless, scholars also have noted that these reforms should not be overstated.204

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">AND

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">one of the hindrances to the nation's efforts to achieve equal educational opportunity.