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  2. Civic education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    8 states require students to take a state-mandated government/civics test. 9 states require a social studies test as a requirement for high school graduation. The lack of state-mandated student accountability relating to civics may be a result of a shift in emphasis towards reading and mathematics in response to the 2001 No Child Left Behind ...

  3. Public interest - Wikipedia

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    In social science and economics, public interest is "the welfare or well-being of the general public" and society. [1] While it has earlier philosophical roots and is considered to be at the core of democratic theories of government, often paired with two other concepts, convenience and necessity, it first became explicitly integrated into governance instruments in the early part of the 20th ...

  4. Mathematics, Civics and Sciences Charter School - Wikipedia

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    The Mathematics, Civics and Sciences Charter School (MCSCS) is a charter school serving students in grades 1–12 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1999, the school is located in the Center City neighborhood and had a 100% graduation rate in 2015–2016.

  5. Civics - Wikipedia

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    In U.S. politics, in the context of urban planning, the term civics comprehends the city politics that affect the political decisions of the citizenry of a city. Civic education is the study of the theoretical, political, and practical aspects of citizenship manifest as political rights, civil rights , and legal obligations. [ 2 ]

  6. List of forms of government - Wikipedia

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    Term Description Examples Autocracy: Autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power (social and political) is concentrated in the hands of one person or polity, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection).

  7. Index of civics articles - Wikipedia

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    Civics is usually considered a branch of applied ethics. Within any given political tradition or ethical tradition , civics refers to education in the obligations and the rights of the citizens under that tradition.

  8. Kamlavati Higher Secondary School - Wikipedia

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    The school follows CBSE pattern from class 1 to 12 and also follows Tamil Nadu State Board syllabus for class 11 and 12.It is a private educational institution originally started in 1972 as part of educational assistance to the children of DCW workers. Later it opened its admissions to general public.

  9. Code of law - Wikipedia

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    First page of the 1804 original edition of the Napoleonic Code. A code of law, also called a law code or legal code, is a systematic collection of statutes.It is a type of legislation that purports to exhaustively cover a complete system of laws or a particular area of law as it existed at the time the code was enacted, by a process of codification. [1]