Student Case Study B

Grade 8 Student-led Civics Workbook is available online now. Please click on the image below to get to the Workbook.

Grade 8 Student-led Civics Workbook is available online now. Please click on the image below to get to the Workbook. In November 2018, Massachusetts passed a bill requiring students to complete at least two civic action projects, also known as student-led...

What are the 10 Questions? From 2009 to 2017, scholars from the MacArthur Foundation’s Research Network on Youth and Participatory Politics studied how digital technology has reshaped the ways in which young people participate in politics. From this study...

In collaboration with Facing History and Ourselves, the Democratic Knowledge Project developed a unit about youth civic agency that focuses on two cases of student activism: the 1963 Chicago Public Schools Boycott and the movement against gun violence...

Professor Danielle Allen describes three types of civic agent in the digital age: engaged citizens, activists, and politicians. All three are essential to democratic practice, but frequently (though not always) differ on the goals they pursue, types of...