Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428926402
Category : Civics
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
What democracy means to ninth-graders U.S. results from the international IEA civic education study
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428926402
Category : Civics
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
What Democracy Means to Ninth Graders
Author: Stéphane BaldiPublisher: Education Department
ISBN: 9780160508462
Category : Civics
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
This report analyzes the U.S. results of the 1999 International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) Civic Education Study, Phase 2. The study was designed to assess the civic knowledge of 14-year-old students across 28 countries. This report concentrates on the attitudes, actions, and conceptual views of U.S. students, as well as the school and classroom context of civic education. It is organized in seven chapters. Chapter 1 is an introduction. Chapter 2 presents a brief overview of the civic achievement of U.S. students on the assessment component of the student instrument compared with that of students in the other 27 participating countries. Chapter 3 examines the school and classroom context of civic knowledge, with particular emphasis on the status of civic education in schools and what students learn in civic education. Chapter 4 presents results on the demographic, socioeconomic, and out-of-school context of civic knowledge. Chapters 5 through 7 analyze the survey component of the instruments. Chapter 5 focuses on concepts of democracy, citizenship, and government. Chapter 6 examines the attitudes of U.S. students toward national and international civic issues. Chapter 7 looks at the current and expected activities of U.S. ninth-grade students related to politics. Appended are "CivEd Framing Questions"; "The CivEd Student Instrument"; "Overview of CivEd Methods and Procedures"; "Standard Errors for Tables"; and "Standard Errors for Figures." Contains a list of references, 28 tables, and 40 figures. (Author/BB)
What Democracy Means to Ninth-graders
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This report presents an analysis of U.S. data from an assessment of the civic knowledge and skills of 14-year old students across 28 countries and their attitudes toward civic issues. The Civic Education Study assessment was conducted by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA). In the United States, the assessment was administered to a nationally representative sample of ninth-graders in October 1999. The report includes the civic achievement of U.S. students compared to other countries; the school and classroom context of civic knowledge; the demographic, socioeconomic, and out-of-school context of civic knowledge; the students2 concepts of democracy, citizenship, and government; their attitudes toward civic issues; and their current and expected political activities.
What Democracy Means to Ninth-graders
Author: Programs and Plans of the National Center for Education Statistics
Author: National Center for Education StatisticsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Educational statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Institutions of American Democracy
Author: Susan FuhrmanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019517030X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
From curriculum standards and testing to school choice and civic learning, issues in American education are some of the most debated in the United States. The Institutions of American Democracy , a collection of essays by the nation's leading education scholars and professionals, is designed to inform the debate and stimulate change.In association with the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands and the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, The Institutions of American Democracy is the first in a series of books commissioned to enhance public understanding of the nature and function of democratic institutions. A national advisory board--including, among others, Nancy Kassebaum Baker, David Boren, John Brademas, Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, David Gergen, and Lee Hamilton--will guide the vision of the project, which includes future volumes on the press and the three branches of government.Each essay in The Institutions of American Democracy addresses essential questions for policymakers, educators, and anyone committed to public education. What role should public education play in a democracy? How has that role changed through American history? Have the schools lost sight of their responsibility to teach civics and citizenship? How are current debates about education shaping the future of this democratic institution?Among the contributors are William Galston, Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland;Clarence Stone, Professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland - College Park and editor of Changing Urban Education and Regime Politics: Governing Atlanta, 1946-1988 (University Press of Kansas, 1998).; Susan Moore Johnson, Pforzheimer Professor of Education in Learning and Teaching, Harvard University; Michael Johanek, Executive Director of K-12 Professional Development, College Board; Kathy Simon, co-executive director of the Coalition for Essential Schools and author of Moral Questions in the Classroom (Yale University Press, 2001); and Jennifer Hochschild, Professor of Government and Professor of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University and author of Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation (Princeton University Press, 1995).
Education Statistics Quarterly
Author: Resources in Education
Author: Democratic Transition in Slovenia
Author: Sabrina P. RametPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1585445258
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The first of the Yugoslav successor states to successfully build a democratic system and to enter the European Union, Slovenia stands as a model for democratic transition. This ground-breaking volume analyzes the challenges confronting the post-Communist government and evaluates the strategies adopted in refashioning its value system. Sabrina P. Ramet and Danica Fink-Hafner have assembled a team of outstanding specialists to analyze various aspects of the country’s transformation from socialism to democracy. The editors note that while a great deal has been written on political and economic questions, relatively little attention has been paid to the transformation and transmission of values and norms in Eastern Europe over the past fifteen years. Slovenia’s experience, reflected in these pages, demonstrates how a small country has created the preconditions necessary to the construction of a civic, democratic culture. Six values are emphasized as central to this project: tolerance, equality, church-state separation, respect for democratic procedure and the rule of law, human rights, and civic-mindedness. The volume editors join the other contributors in discussing the way in which Slovenia has set out to build democracy, the ways in which values are transmitted, the role of the media in a free society, the structure of educational systems, and other questions which are of concern not just to Slovenes, but to everyone who aspires to live in an open, democratic society.
No Citizen Left Behind
Author: Meira LevinsonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674065298
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
While teaching at an all-black middle school in Atlanta, Meira Levinson realized that students' individual self-improvement would not necessarily enable them to overcome their profound marginalization within American society. This is because of a civic empowerment gap that is as shameful and antidemocratic as the academic achievement gap targeted by No Child Left Behind. No Citizen Left Behind argues that students must be taught how to upend and reshape power relationships directly, through political and civic action. Drawing on political theory, empirical research, and her own on-the-ground experience, Levinson shows how de facto segregated urban schools can and must be at the center of this struggle. Recovering the civic purposes of public schools will take more than tweaking the curriculum. Levinson calls on schools to remake civic education. Schools should teach collective action, openly discuss the racialized dimensions of citizenship, and provoke students by engaging their passions against contemporary injustices. Students must also have frequent opportunities to take civic and political action, including within the school itself. To build a truly egalitarian society, we must reject myths of civic sameness and empower all young people to raise their diverse voices. Levinson's account challenges not just educators but all who care about justice, diversity, or democracy.