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Project Citizen Documentary Wins Audience Award at AFI Film Festival
The World We Want, a feature film that documents the stories of Project Citizen students
in eight countries, captured the audience award at AFI FEST 2008 in Los Angeles. The film
had its world premiere before a full house at the Mann 6 Chinese Theater in Hollywood on
Saturday, November 8. The World We Want was one of 150 films shown during the eleven-day
festival, selected from 4,000 entries submitted to the American Film Institute.
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“Casper Selected for State's Undergraduate Teaching Award”
- Nov 20, 2008
We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution scholar Scott Casper has been named as the Nevada state winner of the 2008 U.S. Professors of the Year award. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education sponsor the program, which, since 1981, has recognized excellence in undergraduate teaching and mentoring. A history professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, Casper is a principal writer of the new We the People: The Citizen & the Constitution high school text. He also teaches at We the People professional development workshops and summer institutes.
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Students Learn the Way of Congress
Evansville Courier & Press
Nov 13, 2008
Four Indiana middle schools held simulated congressional hearings for the We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution >>
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| Announcements | | Application for 2009 American Civic Education Teacher Awards Available
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The Center for Civic Education, the Center on Congress at Indiana University, and the National Education Association are now accepting applications for the 2009 American Civic Education Teacher Awards. Each year, three teachers are selected for recognition of their exemplary work preparing young people to become informed and engaged citizens. The awards are given to elementary and secondary teachers of civics, government, and related subjects who have demonstrated special expertise in motivating students to learn about the Constitution, Congress, and public policy. Deadline for applications is February 23, 2009.
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| American Constitutionalism and Citizenship?
We the People: The Citizen & the Constitution
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The Center for Civic Education was recently awarded a grant from the Motorola Foundation to create high school lessons to commemorate the 2009 bicentennial of President Abraham Lincoln's birth. What Was Abraham Lincoln's Legacy to American Constitutionalism and Citizenship? will supplement the Center's We the People: The Citizen & the Constitution, and will reach high school students nationwide. The supplement will be available on the Center's website in January 2009.
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| Announcing the We the People Companion Website
The Center for Civic Education proudly announces the launch of the new
We the People companion website at wtpcompanion.civiced.org.
The website is designed to be used alongside the new We the People:
The Citizen & the Constitution
Level 3 text for high school students. Features include an overview of
the student edition, the preface, and the introduction; the full text
of all unit and lesson purposes; terms with definitions; the glossary;
biographies; links to Supreme Court cases; links to the full text of
primary sources; an annotated bibliography; links to specially selected
websites that illuminate concepts mentioned in the student text; and
multimedia.
Additional features are being added frequently, so be sure to visit the
We the People companion website at wtpcompanion.civiced.org
often for the latest dynamic We the People content. If you have any
suggestions about the companion website, please email Mark Gage, the Center's editorial
director.
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