The April edition (v7. i2) of CIRCLE’s quarterly newsletter, Around the CIRCLE, can be downloaded from here. The newsletter includes a variety of articles including:

• The Civic Mission of Schools: A Review of the Research
• Evaluation of Large Urban School District Shows Schools Can Increase Civic Engagement
• Massachusetts Senate Election: Youth Turnout Was Just 15, Compared to 57% for Older Citizens, Young Voters Favored Coakley
• Returning Veterans Continue Service Stateside

If you would like to receive a hard copy of CIRCLE’s quarterly newsletter, please send an email to Emily Hoban Kirby at Emily.Kirby@Tufts.edu with your address.

The January edition (v7. i1) of CIRCLE’s quarterly newsletter, Around the CIRCLE, can be downloaded from here. The newsletter includes a variety of articles including:

• Volunteering Eases Return to Civilian Life for Young Veterans
• Youth Turnout Down in New Jersey, About the Same in Virginia, Compared to Past Elections
• New CIRCLE Working Papers on Civic Engagement
• 2009 Civic Index Report Finds Civic Engagement Under Stress in the Recession
• Effects of Election Day/Same Day Registration on the Youth Vote

If you would like to receive a hard copy of CIRCLE’s quarterly newsletter, please send an email to Emily Hoban Kirby at Emily.Kirby@Tufts.edu with your address.

A new edition of the CIRCLE quarterly newsletter is available. If you do not currently receive hard copies of the CIRCLE newsletter and would like to please email Emily Kirby at Emily.Kirby@Tufts.edu.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. The Youth Vote 2008

4.  The Changing Transition to Adulthood

6.  Millennials Most Progressive Generation in 50 years
8. Considering the Role of Context in Adolescents’ Civic Engagement
9. CIRCLE in the News
10. The Internet and Civic Outcomes: Notes from the Field

• Download Around the CIRCLE v6.i2

January 2009

The Winter edition of CIRCLE’s quarterly newsletter, Around the CIRCLE, can be downloaded from here.  The newsletter includes a variety of articles including:

-  Has “No Child Left Behind” Narrowed School Curricula?
-  CIRCLE Designs and Analyzes the 2008 Civic Health Index
-  A Closer Look at the 2008 Youth Vote

If you would like to receive a hard copy of CIRCLE’s quarterly newsletter, please send an email to Emily Hoban Kirby at Emily.Kirby@Tufts.edu with your address.

A new edition of the CIRCLE quarterly newsletter is available. Click on the graphic below to download the entire issue, or click on the article title for individual articles. If you do not currently receive hard copies of the CIRCLE newsletter and would like to please email Emily Kirby at Emily.Kirby@Tufts.edu.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 Civic Learning Online: Responding to the Generational Shift in Citizen Identity

2 CIRCLE Joins the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University

3 CIRCLE Helps Pilot New Youth Mapping Software

4 Deep Divide in Primary Youth Vote: 8 in 10 Young Voters Went to College

5 CIRCLE Fact Sheets

6 CIRCLE and Rock the Vote Release Special Report on Young Voters

7 CIRCLE in the News

8 Millennials Talk Politics: Clues for Further Engagement

9 Immigrant Youth Civic Engagement

• Download Around the CIRCLE- 2008 V.5 I.3

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 From the Director’s Desk: CIRCLE is Moving to Tufts University

1 “Millennials Talk Politics: A Study of College Student Political Engagement”

7 CIRCLE Fact Sheets

9 CIRCLE in the News

10 Countdown 2008: Over Three Million Young Voters Participate in Super Tuesday Primaries

• Download Around the CIRCLE- WINTER 2008 V.5 I.2

Table of Contents

1 Common Social Studies Teaching Practices and their Civic Outcomes

RESEARCH ROUNDUP

4 CIRCLE Jointly Hosts Summer Youth Mapping Program
6 New Book by Circle Grantee, Nicholas V. Longo: “Why Community Matters”
8 Evaluating the Civic Effects of Clustering and School-wide Governance
9 CIRCLE in the News

FROM RESEARCH TO PRACTICE

10 Meaningful Learning Outside the Confines of the School Building

Download Around the CIRCLE Fall 2007.

Table of Contents

1 New Book: The Future of Democracy: Developing the Next Generation of American Citizens
3 CIRCLE in the News

RESEARCH ROUNDUP

4 Census Data Confirm Increase in Youth Voter Turnout in 2006 Midterm Elections
6 Evaluating Adolescent Civic Engagement: New Measurement Tool Available
7 Trends in Youth Volunteering
8 Supporting the Free Press Through Schools

FROM RESEARCH TO PRACTICE

10 How to Read and Use Research to Make Your Job Easier

Download Around the CIRCLE July 2007.

Table of Contents

1 Four Years After the Civic Mission of Schools Report: A Summary of the Latest Research on School-Based Learning
2 A Letter from the Authors of The Civic Mission of Schools Report

RESEARCH ROUNDUP

4 Classrooms Produce Positive Civic Outcomes for Students: Results from a Longitudinal Study of Chicago Public School Students
5 The California Survey of Civic Education: An Assessment of the Prevalence and Impact of Civic Education on Graduating   Seniors
6 ECS Study Reveals Gaps in State-Level Policy Regarding Civic Education

FROM RESEARCH TO PRACTICE

10 In Use: The Civic Mission of Schools Report
11 CIRCLE in the News
Download the Around the CIRCLE–April 2007.

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Around the Circle is designed to provide you with snapshots of the latest research on youth civic engagement and civic education. The newsletter features three regular columns:

• Research Roundup highlights new findings from research commissioned or generated by CIRCLE.
• From Research to Practice illustrates how practitioners have applied research to encourage the participation of young people in civic and political life.
• Grants provides information on the CIRCLE grant application process and on funded proposals.

Download Around the CIRCLE–January 2007.