The Education for Democracy Podcast is a monthly audio series devoted to promoting an enlightened and responsible citizenry committed to democratic principles. The podcast tells the stories of students and teachers throughout the world engaged in making their communities better places; learning about government, law, and democracy; and participating in the public policymaking process.
The Education for Democracy Podcast is produced by the Center for Civic Education and focuses on the Center’s main curricular programs: We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution, We the People: Project Citizen, the Civitas International Programs, the School Violence Prevention Demonstration Program, Representative Democracy in America: Voices of the People, and the Campaign to Promote Civic Education.
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For Saul Garlick, participating in We the People was a life-changing experience. In 2001, while he was still in high school, he started a nonprofit organization called the Student Movement ...
The Civic Education Resources Inventory was introduced this summer during the 13th World Congress on Civic Education in Cape Town, South Africa. CERI is an online collection of 588 annotated ...
This interview is the first in a new special series for the Education for Democracy Podcast: the We the People Alumni Spotlight. Megan Linford is our first guest for the ...
In this episode, Ben Bohmfalk, a Project Citizen teacher at Colorado's Basalt High School, talks about the power of new media in the classroom. Ben shares his experiences using of ...
The bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, February 12, 2009, is a good time to reflect on Lincoln and his contributions to American constitutionalism and citizenship. It ...
This month's podcast is devoted to a discussion of the We the People: the Citizen and the Constitution program's unique method of getting students engaged in ...
The 2008 We the People: Project Citizen National Showcase is the focus of this month’s podcast. The showcase, cosponsored by the Center for Civic Education and the National Conference of ...
This month we discuss the 12th World Congress on Civic Education, held this year in Morocco in the cities of Casablanca and Ifrane. First we interview Rick ...
Brian Schultz worked as a teacher at Richard E. Byrd Community Academy in Chicago, where in 2004 he led a predominantly African American class in an experiment in educational innovation. ...
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