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Jack Miller Center Debuts New Website to
Better Serve Educators, Donors
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Our refreshed online home is designed to provide you with a clearer, more engaging experience, offering the latest updates, resources, and ways to get involved. New, notable features include:
- A new scholars page showcasing our active academic council, FCI faculty, and Schools of Civic Thought directors.
- A hub for the latest news from the Jack Miller Center and across the civic education movement.
- A detailed list of our active projects to improve civic education from K-12 classrooms to college campuses.
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READ: A Sputnik Moment for Civics
Hans Zeiger//The University Bookman
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Hans Zeiger reviews A Republic, If We Can Teach It: Fixing America’s Civic Education Crisis By Jeffrey Sikkenga and David Davenport.
"Last year’s dismal eighth-grade scores on the history and civics exams of the National Assessment of Student Progress are not the only warning sign of a civic education emergency. According to a recent survey from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, a third of American voters surveyed don’t know that there are three branches of government, and most Americans don’t know the number of members of the U.S. House of Representatives....
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In such a time, we could use a serious book to lay out the case for civic education. Thankfully, Jeffrey Sikkenga and David Davenport have provided such a book, entitled A Republic, If We Can Teach It."
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READ: The School of Civic Leadership Looks to Protect the American Experiment
Mike Sabo//RealClear American Civics
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Etched onto the side of the Main Building at the University of Texas at Austin is a verse taken from John’s Gospel: “Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” Justin Dyer says that this represents UT’s Austin’s North Star: “The university is a truth-seeking institution.”
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A faculty partner of the Jack Miller Center, Dyer is the author of eight books on natural law, constitutionalism, and American political thought. He previously worked at the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri but was drawn back to UT Austin, where he received his Ph.D., to head its Civitas Institute in 2022. In March of this year, Dyer was appointed to serve as the inaugural dean of UT Austin’s School of Civic Leadership (SCL).
Dyer says that once it officially opens, SCL will give students the opportunity to “study the Western tradition and American constitutional history.” And SCL will inculcate “the skills and aptitudes” that students need “to lead in a free society in the twenty-first century.”
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READ: A River Fed By Many Streams
Wilfred McClay//Liberty Fund
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JMC Board Member and celebrated historian Wilfred McClay reflects on how we must work to understand the Declaration better and to grasp the various sources of its strength and enduring appeal.
"Thomas Jefferson was not a particularly modest man. Few great and world-changing public figures are.
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But in a famous letter of 1825 to Henry Lee, he insisted upon taking a modest approach to his role as the principal draftsman of the document that has come to characterize the heart and soul of the American Revolution: the Declaration of Independence."
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The Jack Miller Center is an educational venture committed to solving the crisis of uninformed citizenship by teaching America’s founding principles and history. We aim to expand the pipeline of scholars dedicated to teaching America’s founding principles and history, to seed and cultivate college campus centers for the study of the American political tradition, and to advance the teaching of American citizenship in K-12 schools centered around our history and foundational texts.
To learn more about our work, visit jackmillercenter.org.
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