If we want young people to build knowledge about democracy, then we must help students develop a rich understanding of elections.

Pull-out from Social Studies and the Young Learner. Includes list of children's books about elections.   

Emphasizing common law and constitutional law to the exclusion of regulatory and administrative law fails to teach students the basic realities of our legal system.

Some key strategies can help teach American high school students about the reality of poverty in our own country. 

This article outlines a project-based learning approach developed by one of the authors, a veteran Seattle teacher, for a high school government course.

Learning the early history of U.S. government is often confusing for middle school students. In this article, the author describes the use of the book We the People and the President to give seventh-grade students a deeper understanding of government