September 16, 2016
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Highlight from the FieldThe 9th grade students at Colorado River Collegiate Academy (CRCA), an early college high school in Bastrop, TX, will begin a fall civic awareness project involving collaborative, student-led research on impactful campaign issues, especially those that affect young voters. Small groups of students will work together to research all sides of an issue in order to get a comprehensive understanding of the core issues at hand in the fall presidential election. Student groups will have agency to choose the campaign issue that interests them the most by selecting a unique topic from a list of key issues. At the completion of their research projects, student groups will present their findings to the entire class, which will enable young voters to understand the complexity and nuances of a wide variety of civic campaign issues.
For more information, contact Megan Brandon, Social Studies Research Methods teacher, CRCA, [email protected]; (512) 772-7230 |
Students in researching campaign issues at CRCA. (photo courtesy of Megan Brandon)
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Featured ResourceThe Great Electoral Race is an interactive digital competition that has students work in teams using their favorite social media platforms to complete any of 51+ electoral challenges to earn points and win prizes.
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Did You Know?Mississippi had the highest youth voter turnout in 2012 with 68.1% of all eligible young voters going to
the polls. (CIRCLE Youth Voting Quick Fact - Image courtesy of Facing South) |
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