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Students learning good citizenship
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United Press International
When educators and patriotic
Americans a few years ago said
“horrors” and shuddered, they were
:vada r"‘'fl reacting to a report on citizenship
students 4 ■ education in t * ie schools.
rar y s coIImJm ^* is scienti hc study, by the fed-
ure i\ » era ^y supported National Assess
ment of Educational Progress,
showed many 13 and 17 year-olds
are uninformed about American
government.
Additionally, half of the 13-year-
olds and a third of the 17-year-olds
have no interest in learning about
their government.
The state of ignorance was judged
by dumb answers to simple ques
tions. For example, more than one-
third in both age groups believe that
the president can appoint members
of Congress.
Representatives of education,
government, the home, business,
labor and religion agreed that salut
ing the flag and pledging allegiance
are not the foundations of educating
for citizenship.
They instead stressed combining
a fundamental knowledge about
government with participation in
government. They concluded that
apathy, lack of knowledge, and feel
ings of powerlessness are roadblocks
to citizenship education.
Education U.S.A., a National
Education Association newsletter,
recently listed exemplary programs
in citizenship education.
For example;
V The Citizenship Develop
ment Program at the Mershon Cen
ter, Ohio State University, develops
citizen competence by stressing de
cisionmaking, encouraging citizen
and community participation and
directing university research to real
problems in schools.
A major project is citizenship
decision-making in grades four to
six, which emphasizes making citi
zenship decisions in everyday life.
V A new secondary curriculum
from the Social Studies Develop
ment Center at Indiana University
deals with comparing political ex
periences. It provides information
and skills in analyzing and par
ticipating in citizenship through
re-enacting actual political situa
tions.
Another program
V Skills in Citizenship Action is
an English-Social Studies Program
for Secondary Schools developed at
the University of Wisconsin.
The program accents communica
tion skills, moral deliberation, the
political-legal process, community-
based learning and student use of
media.
The Institute of Political-
Legal Action in New Jersey
motivates the students to register
voters, volunteer in political cam
paigns, poll their communities on
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