Political Literacy – What it is and why we should teach it.
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What is political literacy? Political literacy means having the basic skills, understandings, and attitudes required to take an active and well educated role in a democratic society. Why should schools teach political literacy. In a world with so many problems in need of political solutions we need citizens who are capable of filtering through all of…