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What is the crisis in civic education?
These are tough times for civic education. In response to the budget crisis, the federal government has cut funding for civic education in 2011. The economic recession has worsened an already dire "civics recession"—high school students are actually performing worse now than they did in 2006 in a recent test of their civic knowledge. Given the challenges faced by our nation, we cannot afford to shortchange our children's education. Now more than ever we must ensure that our young people can participate as informed, responsible citizens.
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We need your help. Make a donation today to support civics classrooms nationwide.
Every contribution makes a difference. Your donation will help develop the next generation of engaged, knowledgeable, and effective citizens by providing high-quality curricular materials and professional development for teachers.
Choose from a variety of levels of support, starting with as little as $1. Your generosity will help diverse groups of students receive the civic education they deserve.
Or, you can demonstrate your commitment to our nation’s democratic principles by becoming a sponsor. Sponsors choose from Bronze, Silver, Gold, or Platinum levels of support. Each level provides a classroom set of books and increasingly in-depth levels of teacher training.
Whatever level of support you choose, you will be contributing to our nation’s democratic future. Together we can transform this civics recession into a victory for democracy.
Click here to provide textbooks for students and professional development for teachers.
Click here to become a sponsor of a civic education classroom in your community.
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Your donation will fund research-proven programs that increase civic knowledge and participation and prepare young people to be informed, responsible, and active citizens.
These programs include We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution, Project Citizen, the Civitas International Programs, the School Violence Prevention Demonstration Program, and Representative Democracy in America: Voices of the People.
Your donation will pay for high-quality curricular materials, textbooks, and professional development for teachers. Your generosity will allow the Center for Civic Education to provide civic education to students from diverse economic and social backgrounds in urban, suburban, and rural settings.
By donating the Center for Civic Education, you will help continue the decades-long legacy of success of these programs, which have provided high-quality civics instructions to millions of young people.
Click here to provide textbooks for students and professional development for teachers.
Click here to become a sponsor of a civic education classroom in your community.
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The Center for Civic Education is an independent, nonprofit organization based in California with a network of program coordinators in every state and congressional district in the country and in more than eighty emerging and advanced democracies throughout the world. The mission of the Center is to promote an enlightened and responsible citizenry that is committed to democratic principles and actively engaged in the practice of democracy in the United States and other countries. The Center administers a wide range of critically acclaimed curricular, professional development for teachers, and community-based programs in conjunction with civic educators and activists around the world.
The principal goals of the Center’s programs are to help students develop (1) an increased understanding of the institutions of constitutional democracy and the fundamental principles and values upon which they are founded, (2) the skills necessary to participate as competent and responsible citizens, and (3) the willingness to use democratic procedures for making decisions and managing conflict. Ultimately, the Center strives to develop an enlightened citizenry by working to increase understanding of the principles, values, institutions, and history of constitutional democracy among teachers, students, and the general public.
The Center has its roots in the interdisciplinary Committee on Civic Education formed at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1964 to develop more effective curricular programs in elementary and secondary civic education. In 1969, the Center became affiliated with the State Bar of California. In 1981, the State Bar of California established the Center for Civic Education as an independent nonprofit organization.
The Center for Civic Education is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (Taxpayer Identification Number: 95-3546790). Your gift is tax deductible to the full extent provided by law.
Click here to provide textbooks for students and professional development for teachers.
Click here to become a sponsor of a civic education classroom in your community.
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