Student Mastery of Civics Ed. Goes Untested

Autor/in	Fleming, Nora
Titel	Student Mastery of Civics Ed. Goes Untested
Quelle	In: Education Week, 32 (2012) 8, S.1 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0277-4232
Schlagwörter	Graduation Requirements; State Standards; Standardized Tests; Civics; Elections; Federal Legislation; Social Studies; Citizen Participation; Citizenship Education; Citizenship Responsibility; Educational Needs; Educational Practices; Educational Policy; Educational Testing; Social Attitudes; Massachusetts; Ohio; Virginia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Abschlussordnung; Standadised tests; Standardisierter Test; Staatsbürgerkunde; Election; Wahl; Bundesrecht; Gemeinschaftskunde; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung; Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Educational need; Bildungsbedarf; Bildungspraxis; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Master-Studiengang
Abstract	The 2012 presidential election and many state and local races are only a few weeks away, but schools are not doing much to promote student interest in the elections or provide civic education more broadly, new research suggests. A report last week from the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), at Tufts University, in Medford, Massachusetts, found only eight states have standardized tests specifically in civics education at the high school level, and Ohio and Virginia alone require students to pass them to graduate. It also says only 21 states mandate that students take a social studies test--the broader discipline that includes history, geography, and civics--and only nine require that they pass it to earn a diploma. That number is down from 34 states that conducted regular assessments in 2001. And most of those tests, according to the findings, are weakly linked to state standards and do not test deeper knowledge of the subject matter at hand. The findings help document what many in education have been saying since the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act more than a decade ago. An emphasis on reading and mathematics, driven by the law's testing and accountability requirements, has cut into the time and attention devoted to some of the other subjects. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10