Jack Miller Center Announces New President, Aggressive National Civics Education Plan

As part of an ambitious, five-year strategic plan to reinvigorate a civic education grounded in American founding principles and history, the Jack Miller Center has named Hans Zeiger as its next president. Zeiger will begin his new role on August 1.

Founded in 2004, the Jack Miller Center is a nonprofit civic education organization based in Philadelphia that works with educators at the secondary school and undergraduate levels to instill thoughtful and engaged citizenship among students.

“Biased, politically motivated perspectives are pouring into the curriculum of our schools unchecked, and parents and citizens are pushing back,” said JMC founder and chairman Jack Miller. “Americans want better civics for their kids, and I believe Hans Zeiger is the right person to lead our national effort.”

A student of American political thought and history, Zeiger says he “shares JMC’s ambitious vision to fix our country’s crumbling civic education.”

“We have lost a sense of common purpose, a sense of what it means to hold citizenship in America,” he argues. “It’s a fundamental challenge to our future. All of us bear responsibility as citizens for the success of our experiment in self-government. And that is why civic education is essential.”

Originally from Washington State, Zeiger will soon relocate across the country with his wife and two young daughters to work out of JMC’s Philadelphia office.

Zeiger has worked in the nonprofit sector, written and spoken widely on history and civic life, and served as a public affairs officer in the Air National Guard. He also spent nearly a decade in the Washington legislature, in both the House of Representatives and Senate, where he chaired the Early Learning and K-12 Education Committee and gained a reputation as a bipartisan collaborator and a supporter of civic education reform…. (Excerpt from Virginia Star)