Focuses on the importance of voting by presenting articles from experts who work in civic organizations: (1) "Rocking the Vote: How We Can Reach Young Americans" (Kay Albowicz); (2) "A Bold New Direction in Civic Participation" (Melanie L. Campbell) and (3) "Voting--What's in It for Me?" (Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins). (CMK)

Report on a study of nationalistic education in secondary schools in Hong Kong. Findings show that civic educators were strongly eclectic in education for cosmopolitan, civic, and cultural nationalism and moderately eclectic in education for anticolonial nationalism but rejected education for totalitarian nationalism. (Contains 5 tables and 57…

Discusses the eighteenth-century view of virtue as an end in itself. Observes that property, prosperity, and individualistic attitudes were essential aspects of economic virtue, whereas majority rule became a central tenet of civic virtue. Explains that public education and governmental checks and balances were seen as means of promoting economic…

Describes a high school course that centers on exploration of the concepts of ethics and civic responsibility. Outlines a four-phase activity connecting ethics and civic responsibility. (PRA)

Describes the preparation of a writing skills handbook which uses exemplary quotations on civic virtue as models of grammatical rules for good writing. (MG)

Examines the goals, methods, and effects of four current deliberative civic education programs, with an in-depth analysis of one: the National Issues Forums (NIF). Shows that NIF can bolster participants' political self-efficacy, refine their political judgments, broaden their political conversation networks, and reduce their conversational…

Describes the international civic education program, Civitas, including background on its creation, national and international significance of and need for the program, program goals, elements for systematic implementation of civic education, program organization, program products and their effectiveness, and illustrative examples of program…

Explores how a defendant can face a civil action and criminal prosecution for the same act without violating the principle of double jeopardy. For instance, burning down a house can engender criminal prosecution charges and a civil suit from the insurance company. Double jeopardy only applies to criminal actions. (MJP)

Criticizes the recent explosion (over the last 20 years) of civil litigation in the United States. Specifically addresses such issues as exorbitant punitive damages, contradictory and confusing federal guidelines and regulations, and restrictive influences on self-reliance and personal responsibility. Reviews some states' measures to correct these…

Offers a perspective on the multiple and unequal meanings of citizenship in U.S. history that favors an emphasis on citizenship as a legal status, a source of obligations, and an ideal kept alive by active commitment. Calls for expanded engagement in public life to give meaning to promises of equal citizenship. (DSK)

Transcribes a conversation between Dieter Misgeld and Abraham Magendzo on human rights education. Misgeld envisions a moral climate based on the preservation of human rights while Magendzo articulates a vision of human rights education to produce democratic institutions and moral practice. Both call for a political analysis of moral education.…

Responds to the article "Making the Past into Prologue: A Response to Professor Bennett" by Stephen T. Leonard. Argues against various points made by Leonard. Believes that concern for civic education and scholarly research are not at odds with one another and can be combined. (CMK)

Describes the Close Up Foundation, a nonpartisan civic organization, and its approaches to citizenship education. Indicates that the Foundation's goal is to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that encourage greater civic participation and that its approach stresses the diversity of participants, active learning, a balance of viewpoints,…

Discusses the four aspects of Max Weber's argument against including advocacy in the political science classroom. Believes that Weber's critique is a useful starting point for considering the issue in relation to contemporary education. Describes two models, critical thinking and civic education, that present advocacy in the political science…

Examines issues concerning collaboration between two movements-increasing civic education and increasing campus diversity-addressed at a Wingspread (Wisconsin) conference. Notes differences in language and rhetorical approaches of the two movements and includes the text of the Wingspread Declaration on Renewing the Civic Mission of the American…