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A Crucible Moment: College Learning & Democracy’s Future

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A national call to action to reinvest in and reimage civic learning.

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All Together Now

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Collaboration and innovation for youth engagement including a look at civic action, misinformation, and the shared responsibility of in and out of school influences on civic learning. Showing that only 22% of 18-24 year olds who voted correctly answered two factual questions (out of two) about the candidates’ positions on the issues they cared about most.

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Americans’ Civics Knowledge Increases but still has a Long Way to Go

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Only 39% of American adults can name the three branches of government, and the link between civics classes and civic knowledge.

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An Equitable Approach to Strengthening Civic Education

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An exploration of the crossroads of civic education and educational equity in the interest of promoting more honest, inclusive, and effective approaches to solving civic learning problems.

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Assessing Civic Competency and Engagement in Higher Education

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Research background, frameworks, and directions for next-generation assessment.

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Beyond the Ballot

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A look at civic education and media literacy as a national security imperative.

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Building Blocks for Learning

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A framework from comprehensive student development in regards to how they acquire the skills and mindsets for learning, which skills need to be built in children for school success, can they be taught, and how growing up with adversity impact the acquisition of these critical skills.

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Cause and Effect

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Explore the current state of civics and effect that declining civic education has had on our constitutional democracy.

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Civic and Political Knowledge and Skills

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Evidence about political knowledge and skills and their value

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Civic Education: What Schools Can Do to Encourage Civic Identity and Action

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A discussion of the timeliness of civic education for American youth, the history of calls for civic education, the state of civic education in schools, those serving youth in disadvantaged contexts, and the ways schools can better address the civic learning needs of today’s youth.

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