Civics Outreach from the Federal Bar Association
The Federal Bar Association created a national civics outreach program to help educate students about our court systems. With the resources provided judges and attorneys […]
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WVXU’s Howard Wilkinson and the Chatterbox Staff
WVXU’s Howard Wilkinson has spent the 2016-2017 school year advising the staff of Walnut Hills High School’s student newspaper, The Chatterbox. While he has passed […]
News Literacy: Have you changed your approach?; Student Journalists in the News; Available Resources
It has always been important to teach students how to distinguish fact from fiction, or fact from opinion. But with so many sources of news […]
World War I Centennial Education Resources
The centennial of the U.S. involvement in World War I, “War To End All Wars,” is approaching on April 6. The United States World War […]
Explore the Executive Branch for President’s Day
Our Founding Fathers formed the United States’ government so that no one person would have too much control. The Constitution set up three branches of […]
A finder’s guide for facts from Morning Edition’s Steve Inskeep
According to NPR’s Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep, “Facts have always been hard to separate from falsehoods, and political partisans have always made it harder.” […]
The News Literacy Project’s CHECKOLOGY™ VIRTUAL CLASSROOM
The News Literacy Project is piloting a new digital curriculum called The Checkology Virtual Classroom to help teach students to be critical, thoughtful consumers of […]
2016 Presidential Scholastic Election Poll Results
The Democracy and Me simulated election took place between October 31 and November 8. Here are the results: Total Student Vote count: 452 Hillary Clinton: […]
NPR Outlines Where The Candidates Stand On The Big Issues
Where do the presidential candidates stand on the issues that affect real voters? NPR set out to answer that question with a cheat sheet outlining […]
NPR Politics: Live Debate Fact Checker
The NPR politics team as well as other NPR reporters and editors have provided real time, annotated analysis of the Presidential and Vice-Presidential debates, including fact […]