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Reforming Civic Education: Three Case Studies

Today, we release a short fact sheet that describes three recent civic education policy changes. We also release a longer paper that takes an initial look at the process behind each proposal and some of the issues faced by the educators tasked with implementing them.

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Civics, digital badges and alternative assessment: Preparing students to be engaged citizens

iCivics’ Drafting Board Module Boosts Students’ Writing Skills

FEATURED: Extracurricular Activities May Increase Likelihood of Voting

CIRCLE Working Paper #73 finds that participation in extracurricular activities, in general, promotes voting, though some activities (notably, some sports) decrease it.

FEATURED: The Classroom-Kitchen Table Connection: The Effects of Political Discussion on Youth Knowledge and Efficacy

CIRCLE Working Paper #72 addresses whether efforts to systematically incorporate media into school curricula increases several elements of civic engagement, including students’ media use, political knowledge or their sense of being able to understand and influence politics (internal political efficacy)

FEATURED: Schoolwide Civic Intervention May Help to Increase Community Service Participation Among Students of All Backgrounds

FEATURED: Predicting Civic Engagement in Urban High School Students

FEATURED: New CIRCLE Working Paper on K12 Civic Education

FEATURED: New CIRCLE Working Paper on K12 Civic Education

CIRCLE Working Paper 59: Democracy for Some–The Civic Opportunity Gap in High School

CIRCLE Working Paper 58: An Interim Report of the Evaluation of a Comprehensive High School Civic Engagement Intervention in Hudson, MA

CIRCLE Working Paper 57: Best Practices in Civic Education: Changes in Students’ Civic Outcomes

CIRCLE Working Paper 56: Schools, Education and the Future of the First Amendment

Working Paper 54: Improving Textbooks as a Way to Foster Civic Understanding and Engagement

Working Paper 53: Do Gender and Ethnicity Affect Civic Engagement and Academic Progress?

Working Paper 52: Civic Engagement and High School Academic Progress: An Analysis Using NELS Data

Working Paper 51: The Civic Achievement Gap

Working Paper 50: Civil Rights Activists in the Information Age: The Development of Math Literacy Workers

Working Paper 49: Experiments in Political Socialization: Kids Voting USA as a Model for Civic Education Reform

Working Paper 48: Assessing School Citizenship Education Climate: Implications for the Social Studies

Working Paper 47: Developing Indicators and Measures of Civic Outcomes for Elementary School Students

Working Paper 45: Youth Civic Engagement: An Institutional Turn

Working Paper 34: Survey of Civic Learning Opportunities for Out-of-School Youth in the Adult Education and Literacy System

Working Paper 33: The Impact of Participation in Service-Learning on High School Students’ Civic Engagement

Working Paper 31: Youth Civic Engagement: Systems Change and Culture Change in Hampton, Virginia

Working Paper 30: Recognizing the Role of Community in Civic Education: Lessons from Hull House, Highlander Folk School, and the Neighborhood Learning Community

Working Paper 28: Voice in the Classroom: How an Open Classroom Environment Facilitates Adolescents’ Civic Development

Working Paper 22: Education for Deliberative Democracy: The Long-term Influence of Kids Voting USA

Working Paper 18: Politics: The Missing Link of Responsible Civic Education

Working Paper 17: Trust in Government-Related Institutions and Civic Engagement among Adolescents: Analysis of Five Countries from the IEA Civic Education Study

Working Paper 09: The Effects of Catholic Schooling on Civic Participation

Working Paper 08: Are There Civic Returns to Education?

Working Paper 07: The Civic Bonding of School and Family: How Kids Voting Students Enliven the Domestic Sphere