Youths' Civic Engagement Seen to Rise

San Diego

The good news, according to researchers presenting findings here last week, is that after waning for years, civic participation among young people appears to be on the rise.

The bad news is that students who are members of racial or ethnic minorities, who live in poor neighborhoods, or who are tracked into low-achieving classes get fewer opportunities to exercise their civic muscles than their better-off peers.

The mixed findings comes from research presented April 15 during the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association , a Washington-based...