Research

Promising Approaches for Strengthening Civic Education: A quick overview of each of the six promising approaches from The Civic Mission of Schools report, demonstrating how each practice is linked to research.

The California Survey of Civic Education: Survey assesses the prevalence and impact of civic education practices in California high schools on graduating seniors throughout the state.

Active Learning and Active Citizenship: Theoretical Contexts: This monograph provides a theoretical framework that can be used to discuss active learning, active citizenship and the relationship between the two.

An Inequitable Invitation to Citizenship: “In the last presidential election, when an immense effort was made to get young people to the polls, only 32 percent of non-college-bound youth voted, compared to 62 percent of college-bound youth. This alarming gap underscores the importance of addressing the issues raised in this new PACE white paper.”

America’s Civic Health Index: The National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) created America’s Civic Health Index to assess how the American people were performing on a wide array of indicators of civic health.

California Civic Health Index: This report assesses how California is performing on a wide array of civic health indicators.

Civic Education in California: Policy Recommendations: A report on the status of civic-education policy in California and recommendations.

Civic Education and State Policy: Assessment of the importance of civic education, indicators of high quality civic education, the results of public policy on civic education, and recommendations for effective civic education policy.

Civic Learning in Changing Democracies: Challenges for Citizenship and Civic Education: A look at how civic education needs to adapt to the changing civic orientation of young people.

CIVICS, Not Government: A report on how the teaching of civics has changed since the 1950's to becoming more scientized, sanitized, and nationalized today.

Democracy for Some: The Civic Opportunity Gap in High School: In this study of high school civic opportunities, researchers found that a student’s race and academic track, and a school’s average socioeconomic status (SES) determines the availability of the school-based civic learning opportunities that promote voting and broader forms of civic engagement.

Paths to 21st Century: An Analysis of Survey Results from Ninth-Graders.

Service-Learning and Civic Education: Assessment of the connections between Service-Learning and Civic Education as methodologies, and tips for improving the civic education component of service learning.