Equity
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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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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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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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Democracy for Some
All Resources, Equity, Impact & Innovation, State of Civics & Our Republic
Findings on civic opportunity gap in high school and recommendations for ways policymakers and educators can address it.. How student’s race and academic track, and a school’s average socioeconomic status determines the availability of school-based civic learning opportunities that promote voting and broader forms of civic engagement.
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Equity in Civic Education White Paper
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A team of 20 researchers, educators, and civic education practitioners released this white paper that outlines the challenges civic education has faced reaching youth of color. It provides suggestions for how to make civic education more equitable and relevant for today’s increasingly diverse student population.
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Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning
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Effective 21st century civic learning is incumbent upon media literacy skills with more than 80% of middle schoolers studied unable to differentiate between a real news story and an advertisement.
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Let’s Go There
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A case for race, ethnicity, and a lived civics approach to civic education.
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Resources and Readiness
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A comparison and disparities among civic education access and equity in six New York high schools.
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There’s Still Not Justice
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Qualitative research regarding youth civic identity development amid distinct school and community contexts.
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Urban Youth and the Counter-Narration of Inequality
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Critical media literacy pedagogy that empowers urban youth to deconstruct dominant media narratives, develop much-needed academic and critical literacies, and create their own counter-narratives to the media’s largely negative depictions of urban youth and their communities can positively impact the development of critical civic literacy, civic awareness, and civic participation among urban youth.
