Results showing the decline in students' attitudes and knowledge about government is focusing attention on the question of whether American youth are receiving an appropriate citizen education. (Author/IRT) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Results (Interpretation).

Responds to findings of the National Assessment of Educational Progress 1998 Civics Assessment, noting that the findings should be a call for action to remedy a serious deficiency in U.S. citizenship education. Calls for a national campaign to ensure effective instruction in civics and government. (SLD)

This document reports preliminary conclusions from the General Accounting Office's (GAO) assessment of the effects of existing federally produced information on education in the United States which focused on the quality, availability, and dissemination of information on selected education topics. Issues guiding the GAO's work included: (1) how…

The Task 2 report, representing part of an investigation coordinated by a committee working under the auspices of the National Council for the Social Studies, provides an analysis of the responses to a selected set of 48 exercises within the NAEP for Social Studies. One section of the exercises deals with the knowledge of structural elements of…

This book takes a look at what U.S. high school seniors know about government and politics and how they learn about it. Secondary school civics courses enhance students' civic knowledge. The book is based on the 1988 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the most extensive assessment to date of civic knowledge among youth. The depth…