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On October 3, KQED, an NPR radio station in the San Francisco Bay area, aired a panel discussion (www.kqed.org/epArchive/R610030900) on its popular Forum series, hosted by Michael Krasny.  The topic was Civics in University Education, with the discussion focused on the results of a recently released survey of civics knowledge (American history, education, government, etc.) of 14,000 students at 50 colleges and universities.  Mike Ratliff, senior vice president of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) (http://www.isi.org/), was the main panelist, as he heads that organization’s American Civic Literacy Program, which sponsored the research.  The other panelists were two professors of political science, Bruce Cain of UC-Berkeley and Terry Moe of Stanford.

The research results attracted widespread media attention, including that of MSNBC, the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, and Newsweek.

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The Armstrong Williams story that surfaced last week is unquestionably a juicy one: the conservative, African-American commentator was paid a sweet $240,000 (in taxpayer dollars), by the Department of Education to promote President Bush's No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation.

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