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Author : Janet B. Goehring
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Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (535 download)
Download or read book Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools written by Janet B. Goehring and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Advancing the Civic Mission of Schools - Academy for Educational Development - Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover Advancing the Civic Mission of Schools WHAT SCHOOLS, DISTRICTS, AND STATE AND FEDERAL LEADERS CAN DO DEVELOPED BY THE Academy for Educational Development FOR THE Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools November 2004 The Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools is funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. [...] For more information about the Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools, visit www.civicmissionofschools.org Advancing the Civic Mission of Schools WHAT SCHOOLS, DISTRICTS, AND STATE AND FEDERAL LEADERS CAN DO DEVELOPED BY THE Academy for Educational Development FOR THE Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools November 2004 The Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools is funded by Carnegie Corp. [...] FEDERAL LEADERS CAN: • Include civic education in the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act to give civic learning equal footing with math and reading; • Expand the definition of civic education to include civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions and promote research about young people's development of these capacities; • Urge states to safeguard time and money for civic e. [...] This can entail developing multifaceted measures to gauge student engagement and civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions; providing incentives for schools to monitor civic indicators; helping teachers understand and use high-quality civic assessments; allocating funds to administer the NAEP civics component more often; and expanding the NAEP framework to include civic thinking and participation. [...] TEACHER EDUCATION SCHOOLS AND PROGRAMS CAN: • Develop and require civic education courses in undergraduate education and graduate programs for teacher certification, and engage prospective teachers in civic engagement experiences; • Develop and require civic-related training programs for principals, superintendents, and other administrative leaders; • Expand course scope and offerings to cover civ.
Author : R. Martin Reardon
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1648029434
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (48 download)
Download or read book School-University-Community Collaboration for Civic Education and Engagement in the Democratic Project written by R. Martin Reardon and published by IAP. This book was released on 2022-05-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools (2011) lamented the “lack of high-quality civic education in America’s schools [that] leaves millions of citizens without the wherewithal to make sense of our system of government” (p. 4). Preus et al. (2016) cited literature to support their observation of “a decline in high-quality civic education and a low rate of civic engagement of young people” (p. 67). Shapiro and Brown (2018) asserted that “civic knowledge and public engagement is at an all-time low” (p. 1). Writing as a college senior, Flaherty (2020) urged educators to “bravely interpret ... national, local, and even school-level incidents as chances for enhanced civic education and to discuss them with students in both formal and casual settings” (p. 6). In this eighth volume in the Current Perspectives on School/University/Community Research series, we feature the work of brave educators who are engaged in schooluniversity-community collaborative educational endeavors. Authors focus on a wide range of projects oriented to civic education writ large—some that have been completed and some that are still in progress—but all authors evince the passion for civic education that underpins engagement in the democratic project.
Author : Melinda Fine
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Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Advancing the Civic Mission of Schools written by Melinda Fine and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because they reach almost every young person in the nation, schools are best positioned to prepare the next generation of Americans for active citizenship. The public increasingly recognizes that students' civic learning is important to maintaining our representative democracy, and parents are calling for schools to help prepare young people for civic and political participation. The Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools is working with advocates from across the political spectrum to dramatically elevate civic learning as an educational priority. The Campaign needs leadership at all levels and in all sectors to restore civic purpose to American schools. Political and school district leaders have particular and significant opportunities to change public education policy. This guide reflects the wisdom of a variety of experts and citizen activists consulted by the Campaign. It identifies six challenges to civic learning, including: (1) Making students civic learning a priority in school reform; (2) Integrating civic learning into the curriculum; (3) Implementing sound civic education standards; (4) Developing better assessment methods to evaluate students' civic learning and to make schools accountable for civic education; (5) Improving teachers' and administrators' training for civic education; and (6) Increasing collaboration between schools and communities. The guide discusses these challenges and articulates clear action steps that schools, districts, and state and federal leaders can take to meet them. (Includes 13 endnotes.).
Author : David E. Campbell
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
ISBN 13 : 1612504787
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Making Civics Count written by David E. Campbell and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By nearly every measure, Americans are less engaged in their communities and political activity than generations past.” So write the editors of this volume, who survey the current practices and history of citizenship education in the United States. They argue that the current period of “creative destruction”—when schools are closing and opening in response to reform mandates—is an ideal time to take an in-depth look at how successful strategies and programs promote civic education and good citizenship. Making Civics Count offers research-based insights into what diverse students and teachers know and do as civic actors, and proposes a blueprint for civic education for a new generation that is both practical and visionary.
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Total Pages : 40 pages
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Download or read book The Civic Mission of Schools written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Association of State Boards of Education
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ISBN 13 : 9781584340676
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Citizens for the 21st Century written by National Association of State Boards of Education and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Department of Education (ED), Office of the Under Secretary
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Total Pages : 40 pages
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Download or read book Advancing Civic Learning and Engagement in Democracy written by Department of Education (ED), Office of the Under Secretary and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, the U.S. Department of Education joins the National Task Force on Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement, the American Commonwealth Partnership, and the Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools in a new national call to action to infuse and enhance civic learning and democratic engagement for all students throughout the American education system. The Department is broadly supportive of the five priorities for action that these groups have developed. In abbreviated form, those priorities are: (1) Advancing civic learning and democratic engagement in both the U.S. and global contexts by encouraging efforts to make them core expectations for elementary, secondary, and postsecondary students--including undergraduate and graduate students; (2) Developing more robust evidence of civic and other student achievement outcomes of civic learning, and of the impact of school- and campus-community partnerships; (3) Strengthening school- and campus-community connections to address significant community problems and advance a local or regional vision and narrative for civic engagement; (4) Expanding research and the range of public scholarship, with a special emphasis on promoting knowledge creation for the good of society; and (5) Deepening civic identity by sharing stories of civic work in social media and organizing deliberative discussions about the roles of higher education in communities across the country, and by creating initiatives in science, arts, and other fields to catalyze civic agency. In this report, the Department outlines directions for advancing civic learning and democratic engagement from grade school to graduate school, with special attention to the federal role and civic learning in higher education. It concludes by proposing nine steps that the Department can take to help expand and elevate civic learning. A bibliography is included. (Contains 3 footnotes.).
Author : Holly Korbey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1475843453
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (758 download)
Download or read book Building Better Citizens written by Holly Korbey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educating for citizenship was the original mission of American schools, but for decades that knowledge—also known as civics education—has been in decline, as schools have shifted focus to college and career, STEM, and raising reading and math scores. But over the last few years, spurred on by political polarization and a steep decline in public understanding, civics education is seeing a nation-wide resurgence, as school leaders, educators, and parents recognize the urgency of teaching young people how America works—especially young people who have been marginalized from the political system. But this isn’t your grandmother’s civics. The “new” civics has been updated and re-tooled for the phone-addicted, multi-cultural, globalized twenty-first century kid. From combatting “fake news” with fact checking in Silicon Valley, to reviving elementary school social studies in Nashville, to learning civic activism in Oklahoma City, journalist Holly Korbey documents the grassroots revival happening across the country. Along the way, she provides an essential guidebook for educators, school leaders and caregivers of all types who want to educate a new generation of engaged citizens at a critical time in American democracy.
Author : Eleni M. Mantas-Kourounis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666955132
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)
Download or read book The Politics of Civic Education written by Eleni M. Mantas-Kourounis and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-06-10 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the progression of civic education advocacy since the early 2000s. It identifies the main actors that called for civic education reform, describes their motivations and policy platforms, and documents the path taken to capture state policy agendas. It argues that No Child Left Behind incentivized civic education advocates to mobilize a “call to action” to restore emphasis on civics that materialized into national policy reform proposals that successfully captured the agendas of state legislatures and bureaucracies. This book analyzes the implementation and sustainability of these civic education policy reforms by undertaking a comparative case study analysis of school districts in Utah and Connecticut. Through the voices of teachers and district administrators, the book tells the story of what happened when these state policy reforms inspired by national initiatives hit the local level where the rubber meets the road. As ideological debates about schools and democracy unfold across the country, as civic education advocates and proposals proliferate, this book treats civic education not as panacea but as a concrete policy area to be analyzed and understood. It contextualizes the current debate and offers a critical assessment of the most recent, comprehensive state-level civic education policy reform. It argues that while questions linger about what type of civic-inspired educational interventions remains most effective for whom, where, and why, the implementation of such interventions are profoundly impacted by local actors and local politics and that future initiatives should take this dimension into consideration.
Author : Peter Levine
Publisher : Tufts University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611687888
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)
Download or read book The Future of Democracy written by Peter Levine and published by Tufts University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We need young people to be civically engaged in order to define and address public problems. Their participation is important for democracy, for institutions such as schools, and for young people themselves, who are more likely to succeed in life if they are engaged in their communities. In The Future of Democracy, Peter Levine, scholar and practitioner, sounds the alarm: in recent years, young Americans have become dangerously less engaged. They are tolerant, patriotic, and idealistic, and some have invented such novel and impressive forms of civic engagement, as blogs, "buycott" movements, and transnational youth networks. But most lack the skills and opportunities they need to participate in politics or address public problems. Levine's timely manifesto clearly explains the causes, symptoms, and repercussions of this damaging trend, and, most importantly, the means whereby America can confront and reverse it. Levine demonstrates how to change young people's civic attitudes, skills, and knowledge and, equally importantly, to reform our institutions so that civic engagement is rewarding and effective. We must both prepare citizens for politics and improve politics for citizens.
Author : John P. Broome
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Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Approaching "The Civic Mission of Schools" written by John P. Broome and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amy K. Syvertsen
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Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Best Practices in Civic Education written by Amy K. Syvertsen and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The power of civic education to elicit positive student outcomes has been empirically documented. However, the field is only now beginning to understand the causal processes that bring about these positive changes in young people. "The Civic Mission of Schools" report commissioned by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and CIRCLE (2003) lays out six "promising approaches" to civic education. These practices emphasize the need for instruction that is relevant to young people (i.e., links young people's interests to political contexts), provides opportunities for practice, and that moves beyond rote learning praxis. A growing body of evidence suggests that these approaches to civic education yield positive, lasting outcomes in young people. For example, research has found that deliberative classroom discussions are positively associated with interest in politics, political knowledge, and feelings of political efficacy. The goal of this project is to examine the association between activities regularly used in civic education courses (e.g., staging a mock election) and their impact on key student outcomes. By linking classroom praxis to outcomes, the authors intend to provide evidence supporting best practices in civic education. (Contains 5 figures and 7 tables.) [This working paper was produced by the Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement.].
Author : Michael A. Rebell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022654995X
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Flunking Democracy written by Michael A. Rebell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2016 presidential election campaign and its aftermath have underscored worrisome trends in the present state of our democracy: the extreme polarization of the electorate, the dismissal of people with opposing views, and the widespread acceptance and circulation of one-sided and factually erroneous information. Only a small proportion of those who are eligible actually vote, and a declining number of citizens actively participate in local community activities. In Flunking Democracy, Michael A. Rebell makes the case that this is not a recent problem, but rather that for generations now, America’s schools have systematically failed to prepare students to be capable citizens. Rebell analyzes the causes of this failure, provides a detailed analysis of what we know about how to prepare students for productive citizenship, and considers examples of best practices. Rebell further argues that this civic decline is also a legal failure—a gross violation of both federal and state constitutions that can only be addressed by the courts. Flunking Democracy concludes with specific recommendations for how the courts can and should address this deficiency, and is essential reading for anyone interested in education, the law, and democratic society.
Author : Kurt Laakso
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Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (488 download)
Download or read book Educating for Democracy in the Twenty-first Century written by Kurt Laakso and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Meira Levinson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674069587
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book No Citizen Left Behind written by Meira Levinson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While teaching at an all-Black middle school in Atlanta, Meira Levinson realized that students’ individual self-improvement would not necessarily enable them to overcome their profound marginalization within American society. This is because of a civic empowerment gap that is as shameful and antidemocratic as the academic achievement gap targeted by No Child Left Behind. No Citizen Left Behind argues that students must be taught how to upend and reshape power relationships directly, through political and civic action. Drawing on political theory, empirical research, and her own on-the-ground experience, Levinson shows how de facto segregated urban schools can and must be at the center of this struggle. Recovering the civic purposes of public schools will take more than tweaking the curriculum. Levinson calls on schools to remake civic education. Schools should teach collective action, openly discuss the racialized dimensions of citizenship, and provoke students by engaging their passions against contemporary injustices. Students must also have frequent opportunities to take civic and political action, including within the school itself. To build a truly egalitarian society, we must reject myths of civic sameness and empower all young people to raise their diverse voices. Levinson’s account challenges not just educators but all who care about justice, diversity, or democracy.
