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A :etter from the Authors of the Civic Mission of Schools Report (Gibson & Levine)
A letter from then program officer at the Carnegie Corporation, Cynthia Gibson, and CIRCLE Director Peter Levine advocating for civics education as an essential obligation of public education. Earlier, Gibson and Levine had coordinated their organizations to publish the Civic Mission of Schools (CMS) report. Written by 60 authors, the report is probably best known Read More >
Working Paper 48: Assessing School Citizenship Education Climate: Implications for the Social Studies
by Gary Homana, Carolyn Barber, and Judith Torney-Purta June 2006 “This paper presents the School Citizenship Education Climate Assessment and examines its implications for the social studies. The assessment tool was developed from a variety of research fields and disciplines related to school and classroom climate and educational practices including civic education, educational psychology and Read More >
Working Paper 47: Developing Indicators and Measures of Civic Outcomes for Elementary School Students
by Bernadette Chi, JoAnn Jastrzab, and Alan Melchior June 2006 “The product from this project is a set of tested, reliable measures of civic knowledge, civic thinking skills, civic participation skills and civic dispositions that are referenced to recent efforts to provide frameworks of competencies in civic education. Two sets of instruments were developed using Read More >
The Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools Launches National Advisory Council
CIRCLE Director Peter Levine, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, and Governor Roy Romer launch the National Advisory Council of the Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools. The mission, according to Justice O’Connor and Governor Romer, is to “restore the civic mission of schools and ensure that civic learning is on par with other basic academic subjects.” Read More >
Working Paper 45: Youth Civic Engagement: An Institutional Turn
by Peter Levine and James Youniss February 2006 “The papers in this collection were written by an interdisciplinary group to address two main questions: What conditions deter young people’s involvement in politics and civic life? What reforms could enhance youth engagement? Most of the contributors met face-to-face in Washington, DC in March 2005 to discuss Read More >
