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CIRCLE Blog New Book: Teaching America: The Case for Civic Education
Teaching America is a new book organized and edited by David Feith with chapters by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Senators Kyl and Graham, former Education Secretary Rod Paige, “Instapundit” Glenn Reynolds, and more than a dozen other authors. I contribute the last chapter, “Letter to Persident Obama: A Policy Approach for the Federal Government.” As Read More >
Civic Engagement and Youth Leadership in Post-Revolution Egypt
Yesterday, CIRCLE met with a delegation of 10 students and youth leaders from various universities in Egypt to explore the significance of political and civic engagement of youth in the U.S., and to examine the roles of schools and civic organization in fostering political and civic engagement of youth leaders. Several topics were discussed during Read More >
The Benefits of Volunteering – What We Know
Our goal is to study how and why young people engage in a range of civic acts, including volunteering, belonging to groups, and voting, and what benefits result from engaging in those ways. We recently received the following questions related to the benefits of volunteering: a) Do young people who volunteer have higher academic performance? Read More >
religious service attendance
You ask, we answer. I was asked yesterday about recent changes in the frequency of religious service attendance among young Americans. In general, participating in religious congregations correlates with civic engagement (see CIRCLE’s fact sheets on Religious Service Attendance and Civic Engagement Among 15 to 25 Year Olds and Young People of Faith More likely Read More >
Special Issue of Liberal Education
The most recent issue of Liberal Education (a journal of the American Association of Colleges and Universities) is devoted to “Civic Engagement and Psychosocial Well-Being” (vol. 97, no 2). It includes an article by CIRCLE director Peter Levine entitled “What Do We Know about Civic Engagement?” Former CIRCLE advisory board member and frequent collaborator Barry Read More >
