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Young People Don’t Always Show Up to Vote. Here’s How Education Can Help.
From This Week with EdSurge · Hosted by Ira Apfel
October 13, 2020·35:12
Episode summary
In this episode of This Week with EdSurge: Research shows young citizens are motivated to vote. But they don’t always make it to the polls. Why not?
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Original publisher description
Research shows young citizens are motivated to vote. But they don’t always make it to the polls. Why not? To find out, we interviewed Sunshine Hillygus, political scientist and co-author of the new book “Making Young Voters.” She shares surprising insights about what kind of K-12 and higher education actually influences youth voting behavior. Hint: It’s not civics class.