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Jumat, 07 Oktober 2011

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The question of how to best educate students to become well-informed citizens is not a new one. 
At the 1905 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), William A.
Schaper, a professor at the University of Minnesota presented a report entitled “What Do
Students Know About Government Before Taking College Courses in Political Science?”  This
report was the first of its kind, and led to the APSA’s active involvement over the last century in
examining curricula and instruction in pre-college civics and government education in the
American school system.

Political Science scholars agree that civic education in America is inadequate, and agree that
hands-on education is the best route to pre-college study of civics and government. There is
much debate in the political science field about the long-term effectiveness of pre-college civic
education.  “Americans’ engagement in civic affairs is low and declining,” warns Michael A.
Neblo of the Task Force on the Federal Election System, citing a 15% drop in voter turnout
between 1964 and 1996.

 Charles N. Quigley, Executive Director of the Center for Civic
Education gives an example of one of the many effects of this: “only 6 percent of (a random
sample of) Americans (surveyed by the National Constitution Center in 1997) can name all four
rights guaranteed by the First Amendment.”

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