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The text also reports declining civic literacy among adults, including results from Annenberg, Institute for Citizens & Scholars, and Freedom Forum surveys. It contends universities sometimes promote politicized versions of civics rather than law, liberty, and self-government. 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In a republic what species of knowledge can be equally important and what duty more pressing on its legislature than to patronize a plan for communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the  \ncountry?\" George Washington, Eighth Annual Message  \nWhy should civics education be reformed?  \nAmerican colleges and universities are failing at civic education.1 Too many graduates are ignorant of basic facts about American history and institutions. The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) has called it a “crisis in civic education,”2 and it is right to say so.  \nA 2019 survey3 by ACTA found that, among the surveyed college graduates, 70 percent incorrectly thought that Thomas Jefferson was the “father of the Constitution,” with only 18 percent correctly identifying James  \n_____________________________  \n1. To read more from the Martin Center about the importance of civic education, visit: [https://](https://)[ ](https://)[www.jamesgmartin.center/tag/civics/](www.jamesgmartin.center/tag/civics/)  \n2. The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA),“A Crisis in Civic Education,” January 2016.  \n3. ACTA, America’s Knowledge Crisis: A Survey of Civic Literacy, 2019.  \nMadison. Thirty-nine percent believed that the president has constitutional authority to declare war, while sixteen percent thought that the late Justice Antonin Scalia was the current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Over half did not know the term lengths of members of Congress, and 12 percent believed that Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was the author of The New Deal.  \nAccording to its most recent report4 on what colleges and universities teach students, ACTA found that only 214 institutions out of 1,135 (about 19 percent) require a foundational course in U.S. government or history.5 Even history majors often are not required to study American history. ACTA’s 2021 report No U.S.  \n4. ACTA, What Will They Learn?, 2022.  \n5. To meet ACTA’s history/U.S. Government requirement, schools must require “a survey course in either U.S. government or history with enough chronological and/or topical breadth to expose students to the sweep of American history and institutions.”  \n1 Blueprint for Reform  \n2 Blueprint for Reform  \nuniversity policies  \nHistory? found that only four of the top 25 public universities “require history majors to complete a wide-ranging course in U.S. history.”6  \nCivic ignorance, unsurprisingly, extends to the general public. According to the Annenberg Center for Public Policy, which takes an annual representative civics survey, less than half of U.S. adults (47 percent) could name all three branches of government.7 The same survey found that American’s overall civic knowledge notably declined from just two years ago. A 2018 survey8 by the Institute for Citizens & Scholars found that only 1 in 3 Americans could pass a test consisting of questions from the U.S. Citizenship Test. In the 2019 State of the First Amendment Survey,9 the Freedom Forum Institute found that sixteen percent of respondents believe that the right to bear arms is guaranteed by the First Amendment.  \nUniversities aren’t just failing to teach students about their country’s history and constitutional structure, many actively propagate distorted and erroneous depictions of American history. Furthermore, these universities have reimagined “civics education” as a form of political activism.10 This form of education is less concerned with teaching students about American law, liberty, or self-government and  \n6. ACTA,“No U.S. History? How College History Departments Leave the United States out of the Major,”  \nNovember 2021.  \n7. Annenberg Public Policy Center, Americans’ Civics Knowledge Drops on First Amendment and Branches of Government, September 13, 2022.  \n8. 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