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Peter Levine: how information relates to power, according to C.V. Wedgewood - C.V. (Veronica) Wedgewood’s The Thirty Years War is almost a century old, but it remains an inexhaustible source of insights. TaNahisi Coates loves it, too: “Take this for w... https://t.co/h9I5FOEny6

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Peter Levine: Nicole Doerr, Political Translation: How Social Movement Democracies Survive - A century ago, Robert Michels observed what he called the “Iron Law of Oligarchy” at work in the socialist and revolutionary labor parties and movements of Eu... https://t.co/UMZNhzXvlT

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Peter Levine: come work at CIRCLE (and two other great jobs involving civic engagement) - We are hiring a researcher for the CIRCLE team, which I supervise. Researcher – Tisch College – (18001131) The Researcher will work with CIRCLE (The Center for I... https://t.co/8oZm5L8N9H

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Peter Levine: what does youth civic engagement have to do with inequality? - In lieu of a blog post here today, this is a piece I wrote for the W.T. Grant Foundation’s website. It begins: My colleagues and I at the Center for Information & Research on... https://t.co/FtfnvVF5TB

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Peter Levine: media literacy and the social discovery of reality - If you’re concerned about media education in the current fraught moment, you should read danah boyd’s “You Think You Want Media Literacy… Do You?” and Renee Hobbs’ response in Medium. ... https://t.co/7l71BZeY8U

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Peter Levine: the Massachusetts Civics Bill #MAcivicsforall - The Massachusetts legislature is considering S. 2306, An Act to Promote and Enhance Civic Engagement. According to the Massachusetts Civic Learning Coalition‘s summary, the bill: Requires t... https://t.co/lxsdJheRcK

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Peter Levine: the first “civic ed” bill: 1642 - The Massachusetts legislature is considering S. 2306, a bill to enhance civic education. I’m for this legislation. Questions about whether the Commonwealth should require civics–or, indeed, any subject–l... https://t.co/4D6GS1wy9J

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Peter Levine: notes on the metaphysics of Gandhi and King - Gandhi offers a fully developed metaphysics and epistemology–original even though it is grounded in classical Indian thought. For Martin Luther King, Protestant theology provides a core theor... https://t.co/bY9LaEwYiG

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Peter Levine: new Civic Studies major at Tufts - Yesterday, the Tufts Faculty of Arts & Sciences approved our proposal for a new major in Civic Studies, the first in the world. It will begin next fall, and I’ll co-teach the new introductory course wit... https://t.co/SZRFEH2Jvp

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Peter Levine: powering youth civic engagement with data - (Providence, RI) Two of our marquee data projects have made the news this week. In The New York Times (March 3), Farah Stockman writes: Efforts to bolster student turnout have been aided by a n... https://t.co/h3j5MJsue3

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Peter Levine: what if there were no public or no private schools? - The Atlantic’s Julie Halpert asks us to imagine two scenarios. In one, “every child would have to attend private school, and in the other, every child would have to attend public scho... https://t.co/pqiG4rQUA9

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Peter Levine: new CIRCLE report on Millennials’ ideology - CIRCLE has released a new report entitled “Millennials’ Diverse Political Views: A Typology of the Rising Generation.” From the summary: Millennials are already the largest group of potential ... https://t.co/Wj20e5woFf

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Peter Levine: The Anachronist at the Florida Review - (Washington, DC) I just signed a contract with The Florida Review so that they can re-publish my interactive novel, The Anachronist. It should appear there in July 2018, and it will reside on their... https://t.co/hWGZhtKZeA

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Peter Levine: my exchange with Beth Rubin about policy for civics - Paul G. Fitchett and Kevin W. Meuwissen have published Social Studies in the New Education Policy Era: Conversations on Purposes, Perspectives, and Practices. This edited volume is de... https://t.co/xDg3p4z1AU

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Peter Levine: the Kenya Youth Manifesto - The Kenya Youth Manifesto is great. It’s the product of an elaborate deliberative process involving Kenyans between the ages of 18 and 35 (a cohort that represents 57 percent of the electorate). The Manifesto ... https://t.co/QCeNDcWfPY

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Peter Levine: what I like in historical writing - Simi Valley, in Ventura County, CA: Not that anyone has asked, but these are the history books that I remember reading over the past couple of years, ranked from my favorite down: The Rise of Western C... https://t.co/s7POEuRYeW

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Peter Levine: talking about teens and the 2018 election - While traveling to Orlando to talk about civic education, I’ll post two recent links. First is today’s episode of “On Point” from NPR. The guests are three teenagers who are running for governo... https://t.co/MDF1Y3phWV

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Peter Levine: what does it mean to say democracy is in retreat? - According to Freedom House, “Democracy faced its most serious crisis in decades in 2017 as its basic tenets—including guarantees of free and fair elections, the rights of minorities, fr... https://t.co/UbSarAvlAl

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Peter Levine: notes on John Ashbery, Paradoxes and Oxymorons - A “plain” is a level place. Some plains are places that were leveled. Isaiah 40:4: “Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, ... https://t.co/CBv1ehbodp

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Peter Levine: register and propose sessions for Frontiers of Democracy 2018 - Frontiers of Democracy is an annual conference hosted by the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University since 2009. The 2018 conference will take place from... https://t.co/iocbSz6aKS