The essence of democracy is popular sovereignty. The people rule. In the United States, citizens exercise this right through elected officials who they believe will best represent their …
Americans have reason to be concerned about the condition of American democracy at the start of the twenty-first century. Surveys show that civic participation has declined, cynicism …
The local school board is one of America's enduring venues of lay democracy at work. In Democracy, Deliberation, and Education, Robert Asen takes the pulse of this democratic …
J Portz, L Stein, RR Jones - 1999 - books.google.com
Page 1 Page 2 UNIVERS SITY UNIVERSITY THE THE MICHIGAN OF MIC OF MICH CTE 1817 'LIBRARIES' Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 City Schools and City Politics Page 6 STUDIES IN …
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 …
WA Galston - PS: Political Science & Politics, 2004 - cambridge.org
264 PS April 2004 early 1960s have weakened, and the principle of individual choice has emerged as our central value. Indeed, citizenship itself has become optional, as the sense of …
Scholars across several social science disciplines have indicated that the behavior described by the term" civic engagement" is girded by a set of attitudes that show knowledge …
Mr. Westheimer and Mr. Kahne, guest editors of this special section, note the lack of consensus regarding the means and goals of civic education in the US While there is an …
SK Bruch, J Soss - Perspectives on Politics, 2018 - cambridge.org
How does formal education matter for inequalities of political behavior across the citizenry? Most answers to this question focus on the things that schools allocate, such as skills …