Former “Jaws” actor Richard Dreyfuss says America is falling short in preparing children to become leaders and participants in the political system. The Academy Award-winning star of “The Goodbye Girl” and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” now describes himself as a full-time civic activist. He tells the Maine State Bar Association civics should be a required course from kindergarten on so that students get the tools and enthusiasm needed to lead the country. Dreyfuss spoke Friday at the association's summer meeting in Bar Harbor, a tiny coastal town. He now devotes himself full time to a nonprofit initiative to revive the civics curriculum.
