Apply by April 15 for the American Civic Education Teacher Awards
The Center is accepting applications until April 15 for the 2015 American Civic Education Teacher Awards. Each year the ACETA program selects and showcases three teachers who have done exemplary work in preparing young people to become informed and engaged citizens. Apply today to be considered for this prestigious honor.
-
-
Apply Today to Attend the National Academy for Civics and Government
The Center for Civic Education is pleased to announce the NEH Summer Institute/National Academy for Civics and Government on Political and Constitutional Theory for Citizens. This unique professional development event will take place July 11-August 1, 2015, on the campus of Occidental College in Los Angeles. Apply today! -
Study Shows Positive Impact of We the People
Professor Diana Owen and a team of researchers from Georgetown University are conducting a study on the effects of We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution on students. In this paper, Owen explains her findings, which show that We the People has a statistically significant positive effect on student learning when compared with students in other civics classes. -
We the People National Finals Hearing Questions Released
The Center is pleased to announce the release of the 2015 We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution National Finals hearing questions (link opens a pdf file). In honor of the eight hundredth anniversary of the Magna Carta, this year's Unit 1 questions include a special question about the "Great Charter."
