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Welcome! We hope you'll find The Democracy Project site to be a useful, fun addition to your classroom during the election year and beyond. The activities and lesson plans you see on the site have been designed with the following goals in mind: * introducing the structure and duties of local, state and federal government; * understanding how government affects our everyday lives, through laws, institutions and services provided in the community; * identifying the duties of the U.S. president and thinking critically about the skills necessary to be a good president; * understanding the history of voting rights in America, and articulating how voting and other forms of civic involvement are essential to a healthy democracy. The online activities are designed for students in grades three to six, with accompanying lesson plans for language arts (LA), social studies (SS), and math (M) teachers. Below you will find more information about the educational goals for each online activity; lesson plans for each activity; curriculum standards related to this content; and the teachers who wrote the lesson plans. -
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Analysis of relationships between education and culture and their consequences for educational quality and educational processes -
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"As wonderful as it might be that the hegemony of professionals over knowledge is lessening, there is a downside: our grasp of and respect for reliable information suffers. … The new politics of knowledge that I advocate would place experts at the head of the table, but — unlike the old order — gives the general public a place at the table as well." -
2vote-How colleges are creating diverse learning environments and are actively preparing students to live and work in an increasingly complex and diverse democracy;
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OpenCongress.org is still very beta (I'm getting proxy errors as I try to review the site), but it looks like a promising tool for citizens and activists hoping to track and respond to Federal legislation. When it's working, the site should be a welcome addition to the online activist's toolkit. -
1voteIf the digital media are truly harbingers of a new type of participatory culture – think blogs, wikis, social networking, citizen-journalism, amateur video sites, free software, and beyond – then what are the implications for democracy?
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