The issues associated with students' civic knowledge, engagement, and participation have
been heightened in intellectual debates and public discussions. However, these discussions …

Despite attempts at using civic education to increase the civic engagement of young people,
education policy is slow to adopt the recommendations of research and great variation exists …

Social studies education is designed to provide a foundation for civic society. In this study
we consider immigrant optimism theory within the context of US secondary social studies to …

For this article, we tested whether and to what extent young people's rates of informed voting
are influenced by laws and policies that regulate the electoral system and by civic education …

Over the past decades, a prevailing narrative of unraveling social ties, supported by
mounting electoral pressures, has compelled the civic engagement field to pursue a …

Articles that decry the state of civic education are almost frequent enough to constitute a
genre of their own. A typical New York Times headline warns,“Failing Grades on Civics …

While equal political participation is a fundamental democratic ideal, it is an ideal unrealized
in the United States. Those with more—more education, more money, more time, more skills …