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Richard Dreyfuss: Improving Civic Education

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Commonwealth Club of California

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Partner:: Commonwealth Club
Location:: Oshman Family JCC
Palo Alto, CA
Event Date:: 07.19.10
Speakers:: Richard Dreyfuss,; Gloria Duffy
Tags:: civic literacy; time; no child left behind; silicon valley

Summary: Recognized for his roles in Jaws, American Graffiti, and Mr. Holland's Opus, Richard Dreyfuss has issued a call to action in our classrooms. Dreyfuss believes civic education is the foundation of public education; yet over the years, it has become more about memorizing facts and dates than understanding context and history.

By incorporating logic, history, and critical thinking with a national standard, Dreyfuss hopes to inspire a new way of teaching and preparing America's youth. Learn more about his bold national initiative to enhance civic education in today's classrooms.

For more information visit: The Dreyfuss Initiative

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Richard Dreyfuss

Richard Dreyfuss is one of the youngest actors to win the coveted Best Actor Oscar, when he snared it for his performance in The Goodbye Girl.

Dreyfuss has been in movie classics such as Mike Nichol's The Graduate and Postcards From the Edge, George Lucas's American Graffiti, Stephen Spielberg's Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Rob Reiner's Stand By Me, Barry Levinson's Tin Men, Barbara Steisand's Nuts, Stakeout, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Lost in Yonkers, and Mr. Holland's Opus, which earned Dreyfuss a second Academy Award nomination. Dreyfuss is also an accomplished stage actor.

For more information visit: The Dreyfuss Initiative

Gloria Duffy

Gloria Duffy is President and CEO of The Commonwealth Club of California.

Gloria Duffy previously served as US Special Coordinator for Cooperative Threat Reduction and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Clinton Administration. Her mission was to convince the countries of the former Soviet Union to give up their weapons of mass destruction, and to prevent the spread of their nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and material.

In years prior, she was the first Executive Director of Ploughshares Fund, a public charitable grant making foundation in San Francisco; Assistant Director of the Arms Control Association, a public interest group in Washington, DC; editor of Arms Control Today, and a resident consultant at the RAND Corporation.

A San Francisco native, Dr. Duffy holds M.A., M. Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in political science from Columbia University in New York, and an A.B. magna cum laude from Occidental College in Los Angeles. Gloria has also worked with the MacArthur Foundation in Chicago, and been a member of Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation since 1980.

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01.: Introduction

02 min 39 sec

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02.: Escapism in Cinema

03 min 51 sec

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03.: The Rise of Technology

02 min 06 sec

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04.: The End of the 'Linear World'

02 min 05 sec

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05.: Technology, Conflict, and Progress

02 min 26 sec

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06.: The Need for a Better Understanding of the World

02 min 51 sec

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07.: How Film, Computers, and Television Killed Time

04 min 03 sec

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08.: Civics and the Need to Teach Thoughtfulness

05 min 26 sec

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09.: Excuses for Not Teaching Civics

02 min 18 sec

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10.: The Effect of the Loss of Thoughtfulness

03 min 44 sec

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11.: The Decline of America

02 min 31 sec

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12.: A Call to Action for Silicon Valley

02 min 21 sec

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13.: Learning from the Marshall Plan

03 min 27 sec

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14.: Advice for Silicon Valley

02 min 04 sec

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15.: Improving Civic Discourse Through Television

04 min 09 sec

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16.: Q & A

00 min 46 sec

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17.: Q1: A New Civics Curriculum

02 min 15 sec

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18.: Q2: The Effect of 'No Child Left Behind'

01 min 12 sec

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19.: Q3: Teaching Common Sense

01 min 57 sec

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20.: Q4: Getting Involved in Politics

04 min 08 sec

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21.: Q5: The Most Impactful Educational Experience

01 min 14 sec

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22.: Q6: Restructuring Government for the 21st Century

02 min 06 sec

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23.: Q7: Qualifications for Civics Teachers

01 min 52 sec

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24.: Q8: Helping with the Dreyfuss Initiative

01 min 13 sec

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Richard Dreyfuss: Technology Has 'Killed Time'

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Actor and activist Richard Dreyfuss worries that computing and broadcast technology have effectively removed time from our collective decision-making process.

"We no longer ruminate, contemplate, think things through or change our minds," says Dreyfuss. "In geopolitics, the removal of time is fatal."
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Encyclopædia Britannica Article

education: Learning that takes place in schools or school-like environments (formal education) or in the world at large; the transmission of the values and accumulated knowledge of a society. In developing cultures there is often little formal education; children learn from their environment and activities, and the adults around them act as teachers. In more complex societies, where there is more knowledge to be passed on, a more selective and efficient means of transmission—the school and teacher—becomes necessary. The content of formal education, its duration, and who receives it have varied widely from culture to culture and age to age, as has the philosophy of education. Some philosophers (e.g., John Locke) have seen individuals as blank slates onto which knowledge can be written. Others (e.g., Jean-Jacques Rousseau) have seen the innate human state as desirable in itself and therefore to be tampered with as little as possible, a view often taken in alternative education. See also behaviourism; John Dewey; elementary education; higher education; kindergarten; lyceum movement; progressive education; public school; special education; teaching.; education on britannica.com