Civic Education

Civic Education...

• Ensures that students have the knowledge and skills to participate in civic life and become informed and active citizens.

• Ensures that students have a firm understanding of the Civil Rights Movement and its enduring effects.

Civic Education is important because?

• It is important for students to know basic facts about United States history, and how the United States political institution work.

• It is important for students to be prepared to critique governments in other countries that have government systems inferior to ours.

• It is important for students to complete the real work of engaged, informed participants of a democracy by identifying issues and advocating for change in their communities.

The Civic Education law was signed into law by?

• The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

• Governor Charlie Baker

• Massachusetts Secretary of Education James Peyser

• Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts Karyn Polito

The new law requires that MA public high schools and school districts serving 8th grade students "provide at least one student-led, non-partisan civics project for each student".

• True

• False

How many stages must be included in student-led civics projects, according to the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE)?

• Three stages

• Ten stages

• Six stages

• Five stages

According to the 2018 History and Social Science Curriculum Framework student-led civic projects support the development of of the following: (Choose all that apply)

• Civic Knowledge

• Historical Context of the Civil Rights Movement

• Civic Skills

• Civic Dispositions

There are provisions in S2631, An act to promote and enhance civic engagement, for getting students to register to vote?

• True

• False

The Act of Promote and Enhance Civic Engagment requires that all public schools in Massachusetts teach American History and Civics Education?

• True

• False

The Act to Promote and Enhance Civic Engagement does not come with any funding?

• True

• False