The Influence of Civic Education on Electoral Engagement and Voting

Students with more education were much more likely to have voted in the 2000 presidential election than those with lower levels of education (Dee, 2003). A more ...

Equitable Civic Learning for All: How K-12 Schools Can Grow Voters

Civic learning that reaches all youth, includes media literacy, and helps foster a democratic school climate is key to growing voters.

Voter and Civic Education - ACE Electoral Knowledge Network

First, there is the notion of “voter education” which is most directly related to electoral management bodies informing voters of how to go about all the ...

Democracy Works: Does mandatory civic education increase voter ...

Two Penn State researchers join us this week to discuss their recent findings on the connection between state-mandated civics tests and ...

Voting Laws, Education, and Youth Civic Engagement

In particular, civic education can prepare students to be informed voters. Unfortunately, the turnout rates and the civic knowledge of young people are ...

Strengthening Democracy With a Modern Civics Education

Young voters are disproportionately subjected to structural barriers to civic engagement such as voter suppression, voter registration ...

The Impact of Civic Education Programmes on Political Participation

Civic education programmes provide explicit instruction to ordinary citizens about democratic institutions, values, and procedures. They include voter ...

“Evaluating the Effectiveness of Civic Education in Enhancing Voter ...

Recommendation: By educating citizens on their rights and responsibilities, civic education can lead to higher voter turnout and greater political engagement, ...

Voting in Missouri, Civic Education, and Engagement

This event, convened in partnership with the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement, offered guidance on navigating the system, from voter ...

(PDF) "Evaluating the Effectiveness of Civic Education in Enhancing ...

PDF | Overview: The study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of civic education in enhancing voter participation and political engagement, ...

Preparing the Next Generation for Electoral Engagement: Social ...

Producing Political Engagement: Schools, Social Studies Education and Social Connection. Arguably, U.S. schools are designed to educate students in the academic ...

Civics test policy fails to increase youth voter turnout, researchers find

A civics test policy mandated in 18 states that focuses on rote memorization and testing of political knowledge did not improve youth voter turnout as intended.

Groundbreaking Report Released on Educating America's Youth for ...

Groundbreaking Report Released on Educating America's Youth for Civic & Political Participation National, Bipartisan Commission of Experts Makes ...

Youth Voting and Civic Engagement in America - Circle at Tufts

There is a two-way relationship between the electoral and civic participation of young people in the United States, and the political, socioeconomic, ...

Supporting civic engagement during election seasons and beyond

It means promoting the quality of life in a community and solving public problems, through both political and non-political processes. Civic engagement is ...

Why educate voters? - the United Nations

voter and civic education are necessary to ensure that all constituents—men and women alike—understand their rights, their political system, the contests they ...

Voting and Civic Engagement | Auraria Library

Voting is one method of political civic engagement. By voting, you are demonstrating your support for an individual, law, or stance and influencing the results ...

The need for civic education in 21st-century schools

Rebecca Winthrop argues why, in an age of growing polarization and rising civic deserts, civic learning must be considered an essential ...

The Role of Civic Education

Civic education in a democracy is education in self government. Democratic self government means that citizens are actively involved in their own governance.

The relationship between adolescents' civic knowledge, civic ...

Introduction. 1.a. Civic engagement and education. A historic purpose of public schools is to prepare youth to be future democratic citizens (Lewis ...