Wall, SD – On March 15th, Wall Middle School’s students presented their Project Citizen portfolios and documentation binders “Fight for Less Appetite” and “No Pay, No Weigh” to the Wall School Board. Also attending the presentation was the South Dakota Project Citizen State Coordinator Ms. DeVee Dietz and Dr. Helen Usera, President/CEO of the Chiesman Foundation for Democracy, Inc...
Pierre, SD – On March 4th, Spearfish Middle School’s “Raiders of the Lost Park – Pine Bark Beetle Kill at Mount Rushmore” Project Citizen Portfolio and documentation binder received a level of achievement rating of Superior. The project by sixth graders was also selected by a Blue Ribbon Committee to advance to the Project Citizen National Showcase to be held in Louisville, Kentucky this summer. Two other portfolios scored a Superior achievement level, Spearfish Middle School’s portfolio “Grass and Trash Do Not Match¬ – Recycling in Spearfish” received the highest level of all portfolios at the State Showcase and Wall Middle School’s “Fight for Less Appetite” received the third highest level...
Rapid City Journal, Feb. 14, 2010. South Middle School eighth-grader Sierra Marti admitted to being scared when she started working on her Project Citizen portfolio about the national No Child Left Behind law. The idea that she would be communicating with Gov. Mike Rounds, U.S. Rep. Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin and U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson was a bit overwhelming...
National Park Service, Feb. 3, 2010. Spearfish Middle School sixth graders participated in a field study at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in January in order to gather scientific data and learn from agency experts about the pine beetle infestation that is killing trees and increasing the risk of fire in the memorial and surrounding areas...
An inspirational documentary film about students around the world making a positive difference in their communities through their participation in Project Citizen.
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.
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.
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 especially for kids to help them learn about civic education!
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.
The Civic Mission of Schools (Executive Summary)
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.
