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Jeremy Stoddard; Jais Brohinsky; Jason A. Chen; Derek Behnke; M. Shane Tutwiler; Janice Robbins – Grantee Submission, 2025
This paper explores how PurpleState, a political simulation designed to foster skills and knowledge for informed civic participation, develops students' abilities to counter or resist the effects of political polarization and partisanship. Throughout the simulation, which has been implemented in Virginia and Wisconsin, students are asked to…
Descriptors: Simulation, Political Attitudes, Political Science, Teaching Methods
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Gaby, Sarah – Youth & Society, 2017
Civic participation in the United States is highly unequal, resulting in a "civic engagement gap" between socioeconomic, racial, and gender groups. Variation in civic participation and the civic engagement gap remain contested, primarily as a result of inconsistent definitions and measurement issues in previous work. Using consistent…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Socioeconomic Influences, Youth, United States History
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Ingels, Steven J.; Glennie, Elizabeth; Lauff, Erich; Wirt, John G. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2012
This report describes patterns of continuity and change over time in four areas of the transition to adulthood among young adults as measured 2 years after their senior year of high school. The four areas are postsecondary enrollment, labor force roles, family formation, and civic engagement through voting or military service. The analysis…
Descriptors: Military Service, High Schools, Marital Status, Young Adults