Critical thinking can help keep the Dem Party from being misunderstood

[gulliver]

6. Maybe use the constitution class model or licensing/certification model

For example, my state requires students of public and private schools to pass both national and state constitution tests. We could do that with critical thinking skills. Also, I don't understand how a state can require science, math, and reading education in the curricula for all students and not teach fundamental things like hypothesis, valid experiments, respect for references, peer review, basic logic, avoidance of fallacies, rhetoric and persuasion, and so forth. If science, math, and reading are required, in other words, then critical thinking is required, it seems to me.

And maybe a lot of schools already teach those things but either give them short shrift or don't repeat them enough?

People generally have to pass drivers tests, so that's another model. To me, it would be worth it to have a proctored test or something that you could take every ten years. It wouldn't be mandatory. You would get a $20 gift card for it maybe. And maybe you could use it for a badge in social apps to distinguish yourself.