"Mandatory Testing and News in the Schools: Implications for Civic

THE RESEARCH PROJECT: Our study of news in America's classrooms is part of
a larger research project funded by The Carnegie Corporation and the Knight
Foundation. It aims to assess and promote civic education by strengthening
news and journalism training. Subsequent reports will focus on the Internet
as a means of public affairs communication, young adults' attention to
news, and improving journalism programs at U.S. universities. The research
is centered at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public
Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and is
being conducted in cooperation with the journalism programs at Columbia
University, Northwestern University, University of California at Berkeley,
and the University of Southern California.

THE RESEARCH REPORT'S AUTHOR. The survey and report were directed by Thomas
E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press at Harvard
University. His research focuses on civic participation, public opinion,
elections, and the news media. He is the author, among other books, of Out
of Order (Knopf, 1993) and The Vanishing Voter (Knopf, 2003) . He is also
the author of two introductory American government texts--The American
Democracy and We The People (McGraw Hill)--that are used widely in U.S.
colleges and also in high school AP governmentl courses.

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