Citizenship education is a case in point. The failure of citizenship education to make an impact was cited by The Electoral Commission as a reason for not reducing the voting age to 16.
There is plenty of evidence that citizenship teaching is not getting the attention it deserves. If it is left to the likes of the maths teacher to do in a few spare lessons, or if teachers are sceptical or even cynical about the subject, it's not surprising that Ofsted inspectors judged citizenship education to be unsatisfactory in one in four schools over the past academic year (see p18).
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