equity in civic education

Joe Kahne and I had an op-ed in Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle entitled “Voter turnout spotlights educational need.” We used the turnout gap between college students and non-college-educated youth as an argument for more equal civic education. This is a link to the online version. According to a friend who lives near San Francisco, “the story was the whole front page of the ‘Insight’ section – complete with rear view picture of tattooed legs at the voting booth.”