A Life Lesson in Civics: How Democracy Prep Charter Schools Boost Student Voting

Autor/inn/en	Gill, Brian P.; Tilley, Charles; Whitesell, Emilyn; Finucane, Mariel; Potamites, Liz; Corcoran, Sean P.
Titel	A Life Lesson in Civics: How Democracy Prep Charter Schools Boost Student Voting
Quelle	In: Education Next, 19 (2019) 3, S.62-67 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1539-9664
Schlagwörter	Civics; Charter Schools; Democracy; Citizenship Education; Public Schools; Voting; Program Effectiveness; Citizen Participation; Grade 6; Grade 7; Grade 8; Grade 9; Grade 10; Grade 11; African Americans; Hispanic Americans; Whites; Adults; New York (New York) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Staatsbürgerkunde; Charter school; Charter-Schule; Demokratie; Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Abstimmung; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; School year 06; 6. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 06; School year 07; 7. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 07; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; School year 11; 11. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 11; Afroamerikaner; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; White; Weißer
Abstract	Education in the United States has a foundational public purpose: to prepare students for effective citizenship. The idea that an educated and engaged citizenry is essential to the health of a democracy motivated the creation of government-run "common schools" in the early decades of the nation and remains an important value in modern times. To determine how effective a public charter school might be at encouraging civic engagement, the authors studied the voter-registration and election-participation rates of former students of a charter network dedicated to encouraging such behavior: Democracy Prep, which has as its mission "to educate responsible citizens for success in the college of their choice and a life of active citizenship." The authors find that Democracy Prep has large positive effects on civic participation, increasing its students' voter-registration rates by about 16 percentage points and their voting rates by about 12 percentage points. Given the low registration and voting rates of young adults nationally, these are substantial impacts. And they provide new evidence that an education focused on preparing students for citizenship can, in fact, boost civic participation in adulthood--even when the school in question is not operated by democratically elected officials. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01