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Extractions: A contractor funded by the National Institute for Literacy through Contract No. ED01P00319. The contract award included all costs associated with the performance of the contractor. August 2001 This Special Policy Update was produced by the National Institute for Literacy, an independent federal organization that is leading the effort toward a fully literate America. By fostering collaboration and innovation, the Institute helps build and strengthen state, regional, and national literacy infrastructures, with the goal of ensuring that all Americans with literacy needs receive the high quality education and basic skills services necessary to achieve success in the workplace, family, and community. The author would like to thank the directors and coordinators of the EL/CE demonstration projects for responding to the NIFL survey and NIFL follow-up calls. The author would also like to thank the following individuals for generously sharing their time and expertise: Joyce Campbell
Extractions: III.B.1. The institutions of the national government: Students should be able to evaluate, take, and defend positions on issues regarding the purposes, organization, and functions of the institutions of the national government. III.C.3. Major responsibilities of state and local governments: Students should be able to identify the major responsibilities of their state and local governments and explain how those governments affect their lives. V.D. Students should be able to explain what civic dispositions or traits of private and public character are important to the preservation and improvement of American constitutional democracy.
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Extractions: Teacher Notes Y ou are presently on top of the world, having just graduated from the University with a degree in secondary education. After a long and arduous search, you have landed your dream job teaching civics at your old high school. After visiting with the principal, you decide to take a nostalgic walk around campus and you are astonished by what you see. Garbage is on the ground, graffiti covers the walls, windows are broken and you perceive an air of indifference among the students. Coming upon a small group nearby, you ask them why the school grounds are in such a mess and they just laugh at you. They say that it's not their job to keep the school clean. You shake your head in dismay as you walk off and wonder where it all went wrong at Sunnyside High. As you head back into the office you are determined to find out from the principal how the school got to the state it is in. He just smiles and say's, "That's why we hired you. It's your job to teach these kids some respect and build school spirit in this apathetic student body." Later that night it all came to you in a "reality check". Sunnyside High is no different than any other high school in this democracy called the United States. The reason for the sorry state of affairs lies in our approach to democracy. Like a "two-by-four to the head" you realize the answer. What's wrong at Sunnyside is the same thing that is wrong with the rest of America.
Extractions: @import url(http://www.sowi-online.de/nav_css_js/style_modern.css); inhalt Young people's distance from politics is seen as a central problem of democratic societies. Compared to the first IEA-study in the era of political mobilization during the early seventies the results for today's young Germans are worse. Regarding political knowledge, the results for young Germans are mediocre; conspicuous and alarming is the unwillingness of German youngsters to participate in school, politics and society. These results can be explained by using data and relations found by the international comparative project Civic Education about the specific meaning of conditions and results of political education in different school systems and societies. This paper discusses several results and questions and shows that one-dimensional explanations are hardly possible in the complex field of political education. Isabel Menezes, Madalena Mendes, Carla Ferreira, Georgina Marques, Conceiçã Monteiro, Joana Gião, Rosa Afonso, Gertrudes Amaro:
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Extractions: Return to the Table of Contents. March 1959 A native of California and a veteran of World War II, MELVILLE J. HOMFELD graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara and took his master's degree and his doctorate in education at Stanford. He has taught in grade school and in college, has served as principal of a junior high school, and since 1947 has been superintendent of Menlo Park city school district. T here are signs today that the school has become society's dumping ground, that the public school system has become a vast refuse heap for any and every unwanted service or task that other social or governmental institutions and agencies find too tough to handle. The community, the home, and to some extent even the church have used the public schools to relieve their consciences of feelings of guilt by passing on unfinished business which they have found difficult of accomplishment or just burdensome. Can we expect to go on and on in this ever-expanding program, one in which public educators attempt to do all things for all people and do them well? Can we do everything for everybody? If not, by what criterion shall we select those things which we can do, and how shall we say no? The first half of the twentieth century has seen an almost complete metamorphosis of the institution which we call the public school. The grammar school of 1900, which has now become the elementary school, offered as its curriculum reading, writing, spelling, grammar, and numbers, and a few very adventurous souls were teaching some history and geography. The typical high school curriculum consisted of more mathematics, history, a concentrated study of the English language and its literature, and, of course, Latin. Some of the more daring secondary schools were permitting the teaching of German and French, but such frills were generally reserved for girls' finishing schools or for university study in preparation for advanced research.
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