The Civic Achievement Gap

January 26, 2018 | Author: Anonymous | Category: Social Science, Political Science, American Politics
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Leaving No Citizen Behind: Educating to Overcome the Civic Empowerment Gap Meira Levinson Harvard Graduate School of Education Northeastern University April 26, 2011

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A competent and responsible citizen:

withdraw

1. is informed and thoughtful

2. participates in his/her community 3. has moral and civic virtues

boycott

mobilize others

vote

inform/persuade others

run for office

blog

4. acts politically by having the skills, knowledge, and commitment needed to accomplish public purposes (Civic Mission of Schools; Keeter et. al.)

create art (visual, rap, etc.)

Key attributes of good citizens: • Knowledge • Skills • Attitudes • Behaviors Strong, direct correlation among these: Knowledge + Skills + Attitudes = Engagement

Civic Empowerment Gap: Knowledge and Skills • Data from 4th, 8th, 12th grades (NAEP), 9th grade (IEA), and adults (Delli Carpini and Keeter) • Uniform results: Higher scores on content knowledge and skills:

Lower scores on content knowledge and skills:

Whites and Asians

Blacks and Hispanics

Two-parent families

Single-parent families

Middle class (>200 books in home)

Poor ($75,000: 80%

Blacks:

60%

Income $75,000: 75%

Blacks:

65%

Income 1/3 of all Black and Latino kids in US > 1/2 of all Black and Latino kids in Northeast

100 largest school districts hyper-segregated: 56% of schools are 81-100% non-White Over 1/5 of these districts have student population > 90% non-White, > 70% in poverty “triple segregation” by race, poverty, language

Recommendations: 1. Improve urban schools and reduce drop-out rates 2. Increase civic education: earlier, more, more often 3. Incorporate students’ own interests, knowledge, and experiences into curriculum    

Local knowledge and issues Current events Community concerns and attitudes Historical understanding

4. Provide students empowering civic experiences    

Pedagogies Class and school climate Democratic governance Civic engagement beyond school walls (guided experiential civic ed)

5. Provide teachers empowering civic experiences

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