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The Challenges Facing Civic Education in the 21st Century

Author(s) -

Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

daedalus

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.34

H-Index - 55

eISSN - 1548-6192

pISSN - 0011-5266

DOI - 10.1162/daed_a_00204

Subject(s) - civics , state (computer science) , political science , quality (philosophy) , citizenship education , public administration , value (mathematics) , social studies , economic growth , public relations , citizenship , law , economics , politics , philosophy , epistemology , algorithm , machine learning , computer science

This essay explores the value and state of civics education in the United States and identifies five challenges facing those seeking to improve its quality and accessibility: 1) ensuring that the quality of civics education is high is not a state or federal priority; 2) social studies textbooks do not facilitate the development of needed civic skills; 3) upper-income students are better served by our schools than are lower-income individuals; 4) cutbacks in funds available to schools make implementing changes in civics education difficult; and 5) reform efforts are complicated by the fact that civics education has become a pawn in a polarized debate among partisans.

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