November 14, 2007
Researchers Urge College to Promote Political Participation and Suggest Neutral Ways of Doing So
Community service attracts record numbers of college students, but not so politics. Researchers at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching have been exploring how to change that.
"Young people are strikingly and troublingly ignorant about politics and political decision making," Thomas Ehrlich, a senior scholar at the Carnegie Foundation, said at a news conference on Tuesday. The conference marked the release of the book Educating for Democracy: Preparing
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