The executive summary of the final report of the National Study Group on Citizenship in K-12 Schools is the National Center for Learning and Citizenship's (NCLC) advocacy statement and the blueprint for work over the past three years and into the future. It summarizes a framework and rationale for (1) articulating a pressing need to revitalize the civic mission of education, (2) advancing service-learning as a strategy that can challenge and guide students to meet their civic responsibilities and (3) engaging every student in activities that make a difference in their schools and communities. Find out the principles of best practices needed to support the development of the democratic self, challenges to current policy assumptions and recommendations for action at the school, district, community, state and national level. To read the executive summary go to http://www.ecs.org/clearinghouse/16/77/1677.pdf.

Terry Pickeral, Executive Director
National Center for Learning and Citizenship
Education Commission of the States
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Denver, Colorado 80203-3460
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