Sentences with phrase «on civic knowledge»

Given how little Americans know about their government and politics, even civic education that is focused merely on civic knowledge faces formidable challenges.

Civics courses in particular appear to have little effect on civic knowledge and even less on civic values.

These and other studies have created a lasting professional consensus that, in general, the scholastic curriculum has some effects on the civic knowledge of students, but little or no effect on their civic values.

They found that, although the civics curriculum had much less effect on civic knowledge and values than did the home environment, civics courses did make some difference.

As Murphy summarizes their argument, Niemi and Junn «found that, although the civics curriculum had much less effect on civic knowledge and values than did the home environment, civics courses did make some difference....

Not exact matches

Studies show that we do only slightly better — still earning a failing grade — on «civic knowledge,» dealing with the principles of American government and the basics of American history, for example.

«Students» scores on a test of civic knowledge significantly improved after playing iCivics for the sample as a whole,» LeCompte said.

Research also reveals a knowledge gap: Roughly one in four students scored at or above «proficient» on the most recent NAEP civics assessment, in 2014, and adults aren't faring well either.

Usable Knowledge sat down with Haste to talk about new forms of civic participation, a new lens on democracy, and a new brand of civic education.

When we speak of the civic functions of education then, we envision a culture of reason, analysis, and reflection, based on certain shared knowledge.

Considering the current state of our democracy (with partisan politics resulting in policy gridlock), it is concerning that the civic mission of public schools is so neglected, particularly given the lack of civic knowledge of our youth (evidenced by their poor performance on the 2010 NAEP in Civics)-- and low civic engagement (for example, just 41.2 percent of youth — voters age 18 - 24 — turned out for the 2012 presidential election).

An earlier study that examined the long - term impact of study abroad by surveying 6,391 participants showed an impact on five dimensions of global engagement which included: civic engagement, knowledge production, philanthropy, social entrepreneurship and voluntary simplicity (Paige, Fry, Stallman, Josi & Jon, 2009).

The C3 has four dimensions: one focused on questioning and inquiry; another on disciplinary knowledge and concepts relating to civics, economics, geography, and history; another on evaluating and using evidence; and a final one on communicating and taking action.

Here Paige's political skills and knowledge of the community were crucial; he avoided any conflicts on which civic elites would side with the union.

In an essay that is sure to provoke both those who want schools to advance patriotic values and those who preach social change, Murphy argues that public schools should focus on teaching students the knowledge and skills necessary to be intellectually engaged citizens, while remaining neutral on questions of civic values.

But our results are consistent with a broader research literature finding that private schools have largely neutral or positive impacts on civic values such as political tolerance, voluntarism, political knowledge, and political participation.

Without imparting on our students a sense of their civic duties, and the knowledge required to carry them out, I worry that all our education reform efforts will be for naught.

We might think of schooling as teaching the prior generation's knowledge so that youth are prepared to communicate on an equal footing with those they are about to join in the economic and civic spheres.

They researched the effects of different kinds of civics courses on students» civic knowledge and attitudes, hypothesizing that certain kinds of teaching methods might significantly add or subtract from learning about politics.

On one hand, people seem to be growing more and more distressed at the lack of civics and history knowledge among the population.

According to the National Council for the Social Studies (2008), what ties these disciplines together into one domain is their focus on civic competence — on preparing students to be able to use knowledge of one's community and society to interpret data, solve problems, and make decisions in ways that support the goals of democracy.

The assessment was based on multiple choice and directed response questions in these areas: civic knowledge, intellectual and participatory skills, and civic dispositions, or «habits of the heart,» as de Tocqueville called them.

On the most recent implementation of the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), only one in four eighth graders showed proficient knowledge of civics, only three out of ten showed proficient knowledge of geography, and only two out of ten showed proficient knowledge of U.S. History (National Center for Education Statistics, 2014).

Through civic engagement and service - learning we can deepen students» sense of responsibility, building on their knowledge, and eventually developing into habits of caring and action.

GRC has specialized focus on college and career readiness with an emphasis on knowledge, civic, social and personal development for students.

By providing children with positive animal interactions and the knowledge on how to properly intervene, humane education not only empowers children to do good, but also puts them on a path to becoming more thoughtful, empathetic, civic - minded citizens.

The core Public Lab program is focused on «civic science» in which we research open source hardware and software tools and methods to generate knowledge and share data about community environmental health....

But it should be emphasized that, although his points on the anti-intellectualism of creation science and lousy civics knowledge are sound, when he surrounds that with misdirection and literally unsupportable talking points about the global warming issue, his message looks less like one of genuine concern and more like a subtle excuse to validate global warming propaganda.

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