High School Civic Education Linked to Voting Participation and Political Knowledge
Posted by on February 04, 2013
High School Civic Education Linked to Voting Participation and Political Knowledge, No Effect on Partisanship or Candidate Selection
A large, national survey of young Americans released today shows that most young adults who voted in 2012 could choose an issue that was important to them and knew where the candidates stood on at least one relevant policy. But the survey reveals widespread misinformation on some issues, and young people who did not vote scored poorly on the knowledge questions. The survey also shows a clear relationship between respondents’ high school civics education experiences and their knowledge of campaign issues and political participation in the 2012 presidential election. However, taking high school civics had little or no relationship with party registration or young adults’ choice between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. See the rest of the survey results:
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