The North Carolina House has approved a bill requiring state college students to take a U.S. history or government class in order to graduate.
public university and community college students would have to take a U.S. history or government class to graduate under legislation advancing at the state House.Bill sponsors told an education committee on Thursday that a required higher education class would go into more depth and help address what they consider a lack of knowledge about the country's government and essentials.
TEEN GIRLS ARE STRUGGLING WITH MENTAL ILLNESS AT RECORD LEVELS, WITH MANY ‘PERSISTENTLY SAD,' DATA REVEALS Students and faculty walk through an open area on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Aug. 18, 2020, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The North Carolina House has approved a bill requiring college students to take a U.S. history or government class.what this country is, what it was, its imperfections, its advances ... we will not continue as a country," said Rep.
The legislation would require class participants to read several historical documents, including the U.S. Constitution, the Emancipation Proclamation, certain essays from The Federalist Papers and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s"Letter from a Birmingham Jail."
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