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Trostle, Lawrence C. – Educational Research Quarterly, 1990
Knowledge of the United States Constitution was investigated for 111 randomly selected college students. Many students had little or no knowledge/understanding of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. No significant differences were found between those who had read the Constitution and those who had never read it. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Comparative Analysis, Constitutional History, Democracy
Bennett, Sharareh Frouzesh; Soule, Suzanne – Center for Civic Education, 2005
We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution is an educational program developed by the Center for Civic Education (the Center). The program instructs students on the history and principles of American constitutional democracy with the primary goal of promoting civic competence and responsibility among the nation's elementary, middle, and…
Descriptors: Competition, Democracy, Citizenship Education, United States History
Parachini, Allan; And Others – 1995
Placing the debate in the United States over amending the Constitution to permit state-sanctioned school prayer in global perspective, this report analyzes the results of a survey of the school prayer policies of 72 countries. The report concludes that the vast majority of the major countries of the world, including Western Europe, Central…
Descriptors: Civil Law, Civil Liberties, Comparative Analysis, Constitutional History