How To Make A Civics Education Stick
“On the civics portion of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, commonly called the ‘Nation’s Report Card,’ students of color and low-income students have consistently scored lower than their white, wealthier counterparts. ‘If there are students who are not receiving adequate instruction in civics education, and if those students are among the disadvantaged groups, then that’s going to perpetuate some of the barriers to political participation and representation that we’ve seen in the past,’ says Elizabeth Levesque, an education research fellow at the Brookings Institution.”