Civic Education
The NCSL Trust for Representative Democracy has developed a database for state legislation concerning civic education. This database is intended to capture state legislative efforts to address civic education-related issues and includes brief summaries of the legislation, bill number, status and the bill sponsor.
Users can search the database by year, state, bill status and keyword. The database is a work in progress and, in general, will be updated on a bi-weekly basis.
To obtain the full text of legislation go to NCSL's State Legislatures Internet Links and search the sites of the legislatures where bills have been introduced.
For more information about state efforts to promote citizenship education, link to the Education Commission of the States, State Policies to Support Citizenship Education site.
 New State Standards Correlations Database
Check out the database that correlates all of the Americas Legislators Back to School Program resource materials and Appreciating Legislatures lesson plans to state curriculum standards.
The NCSL Trust for Representative Democracy has developed a database that correlates all of the Americas Legislators Back to School Program resource materials and Your Ideas Count! and Appreciating Legislatures lesson plans to state curriculum standards.
The State Legislatures Internet Links database also contains links to the State Legislatures' Kids Pages, fun and innovative web pages that state legislatures have created especically for kids to help them learn about civic education!
 State Legislatures Internet Links
A database containing information gleaned from the home pages and websites of the fifty state legislatures, the District of Columbia and the Territories. You can select to view specific website content materials (such as bills, press rooms, statutes) from all states, one state or a selected list of states.
NCSL participated in the development of The Civic Mission of Schools, a groundbreaking report that summarizes the evidence in favor of civic education in k-12 schools and offers recommendations to educators and policymakers.
 Full Report (44 page document). To read portable document format (.pdf) files, you must install Adobe Acrobat Reader.
An inspirational documentary film about students around the world making a positive difference in their communities through their participation in Project Citizen.
File created August 1999
last upate 4/15/09
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