Education Week – Mark Walsh
“Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was honored Wednesday night for causes she has advanced during her very active retirement, especially her work to improve civics education in the nation’s schools…After O’Connor stepped down from the Supreme Court in 2006, she founded iCivics, a non-profit that promotes learning about government through online games such as “We the Jury” and “Do I Have a Right?”…”We don’t learn civics and how to be involved genetically,” O’Connor says…”We have to learn it every generation. I wanted to teach young people in America how they can be part of the governmental structure so they can help decide what problems to tackle and how to solve them…We need to teach young people that they’re going to grow up and be in charge.””(more)