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Op-ed by Andrea Mitchell Center Director Jeffrey Green in the Boston Globe

Wednesday, October 29, 2025 - 2:15pm

"American civics education should confuse, not comfort"

Andrea Mitchell Center Director Jeffrey Green wrote an op-ed published by the Boston Globe on civics education in the United States. "Civics education that perplexes can make students less prone to believe in demagogues, more willing to see democracy as a work in progress, and better able to listen, argue, and compromise with those with whom they disagree," he writes.

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