I am currentry writing a paper on the importance of civic eduction in schools for my delicate balence class. Here is a section of it.
Civic Education is important because it encourages responsibility, active citizen involvement and, informed decision making. One way these skills are used is in the voting process. Being an informed citizen means that he or she knows the civic content and can contribute to society by making informed decisions. In the article Informed Voting is a Citizens Civic Duty journalist Don Powers explains that “voting in our republic is both a duty and a right. The right is that of participation in the republic, and the duty is to be an informed elector and citizen who actually votes” (Powers). It is the citizen’s duty to vote to preserve democracy.    According to the National Alliance for Civic Education’s article The Importance of Civic Education a study was performed on 90000 fourteen year olds and showed that the major predictor of intentions of voting was civic knowledge (National Alliance for Civic Education). Another study was preformed that yielded results adults that showed adults who had more knowledge of politics no matter their interest level were more likely to vote than non-educated adults (National Alliance for Civic Education). It can be seen that being informed is a key predictor to voting.