From 2010 Global Education Conference. A look at teh state of civics in the United States today and the role the internet will play in improving civic education.

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2. Krista Kohlhausen
Director
Walter and Leonore Annenberg
Presidential Learning Center

3. Tony Pennay
Program Manager
Walter and Leonore Annenberg
Presidential Learning Center

4. Janet Tran
Educator
Walter and Leonore Annenberg
Presidential Learning Center

5. Goals
• Participants will come
away with:
– a solid understanding
of the state of civics
education today.
– Knowledge of effective
means of promoting
civic engagement in the
classroom and beyond.
– A list of organizations
to turn when trying to
generate civic
involvement.

6. Stateof CivicsToday

8. “The U.S. civics assessment evaluates students’ knowledge, skills, and
dispositions that are critical to the responsibilities of citizenship in
America’s constitutional democracy.”
- The Nation’s Report Card: Civics 2006

11. 2%
21%
50%
27%
% of 4th Grade Students according to CivicsProficiency
Advanced
Proficient
Basic
Below Basic

13. 2%
20%
48%
30%
% of 8th Grade Students according to Civics Proficiency
Advanced
Proficient
Basic
Below Basic

15. 5%
23%
41%
31%
% of 12thGrade Students according to Civics Proficiency
Advanced
Proficient
Basic
Below Basic

16. Key Findings

17. Scores according to
Parental Education Level
125
130
135
140
145
150
155
160
165
Average
Raw
Scores
(out of
300)
College Graduates
Graduated from high school

20. % of Students Proficient or Above
Grade Level 1998 2006
4th Grade
23 24
8th Grade
22 22
12th Grade
26 27

21. Civicproficiency?

22. Limitedgovernment

23. Constitutional
Government

24. Expanding political participation

25. Structure of
American
Government

32. Categories of Civic Engagement

33. Service

34. Group

35. CurrentEvents

36. SocialConnectedness

37. PoliticalAction

39. “One and one and one is three”
- Come Together, The Beatles

40. Volunteering

41. "When kids volunteer it tells others that they don't have to be perfect or
famous or even grown up to make a difference."
- Kalynn Dobos, age 7

42. Voting Volunteering
Total Voters in 2008 Total Volunteers in 2010
More than 131 million
(~58%)
More than 62 million
(~26%)

43. Voting Rate World Comparison
Country Voter Rate
Australia 95%
Chile 93%
Germany 86%
Brazil 83%
Israel 80%
France 76%
Japan 71%
United States 54%
Poland 51%
Statistics from
Mark N. Franklin's "Electoral Participation,”
Controversies in Voting Behavior (2001).

44. Internet

45. The Internet and Civic Engagement
Category Homes without Internet Home with Internet
Volunteering 15.7% 33.0% +17.3
Participating in School Group 9.2% 21.2% +12.0
Current Events from
Newspaper
62.2% 74.3% +12.1
Voting (2008) 50.1% 69.0% +18.9
Registered to Vote (2008) 58.4% 74.4% +16
Contacted Public Official 6.1% 14.8% +8.7

59. http://new.civiced.org/

60. http://crf-usa.org/

61. http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/

62. http://constitutioncenter.org/

63. http://www.loc.gov/index.html

64. http://www.socialstudies.org/

66. http://serve.gov

67. http://www.ysa.org/

68. http://mobilize.org/

69. http://www.cityyear.org/

70. http://www.americorps.gov

71. http://www.servicenation.org/

72. http://www.splashlife.com/

73. http://new.civiced.org/programs/project-citizen

74. http://www.generationcitizen.org/

75. http://craigslistfoundation.wordpress.com/

78. Programming

79. Professional Development

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