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Peter Levine in Tampa
CIRCLE Director Peter Levine gives the keynote address for Project ELECT, a project of the Hillsborough County (Florida) Public Schools. Levine will also speak to faculty at the University of South Florida.
Youth Civic Identity Development Amid Distinct School and Community Contexts
by Beth Rubin Qualitative research describing and theorizing about the emerging civic identities of diverse youth is scarce. This study provides a textured view of how civic identity is constructed and negotiated by racially and socioeconomically diverse adolescents, based on interviews and in-class discussions conducted with students in four public secondary schools. Youth living in Read More >
U.S. Civics Instruction: Content and Teaching Strategies
August 2007 by Mark Hugo Lopez & Emily Hoban Kirby A new CIRCLE fact sheet presents previously unreleased evidence from the 2006 CPHS survey about the themes emphasized in civics classes as well as the teaching strategies teachers employ in civics instruction. The research shows that government and civics classes continue to focus on traditional Read More >
CIRCLE Working Paper 58: An Interim Report of the Evaluation of a Comprehensive High School Civic Engagement Intervention in Hudson, MA
by Hugh McIntosh, Sheldon H. Berman, & James Youniss August 2007 In September 2003, Hudson High School in Hudson, MA, launched two new civic development efforts –- clustering and school-wide governance. This new teaching strategy provided an opportunity to study the influence of school-wide democratic deliberation on students’ civic knowledge and participation. The intervention involved, Read More >
CIRCLE Working Paper 57: Best Practices in Civic Education: Changes in Students’ Civic Outcomes
by Amy K. Syvertsen, Constance A. Flanagan, & Michael D. Stout August 2007 CIRCLE Working Paper #57 examines the association between activities regularly used in high school civic education courses (e.g., staging a mock election) and their impact on key student outcomes. The authors looked at a range of usual practices used by social studies Read More >
