Philip Reid and the Statue of Freedom Eugene Walton Casting Freedom, 1860-1862 Restoring Freedom, 1993 An Abolitionist Cartoon, 1830

Mary E. HaasLearning about such things as voting procedures, the secret ballot, polling, the president's duties, and the Electoral College can teach primary and upper elementary students about their own roles as citizens in a democracy.

*/ Terry L. CherryPhoto by Joy Lindsey While watching the news on Internet videos (as well as on television, reading news reports, and listening to the radio), and while speaking with our colleagues, we realize that the changing world calls for innovative education practices. In many ways, how instructors prepare students today for civic life is different from what we might have been doing in the classroom as recently as five years ago.  My last two messages in this newsletter were about “Collaboration” and “Communication,” which are the first two priorities of the…