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Center for Civic Education
Location: Woodland Hills, CA - International
The Center for Civic Education is a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational corporation dedicated to promoting an enlightened and responsible citizenry committed to democratic principles and actively engaged in the practice of democracy in the United States and other countries.The Center specializes in civic/citizenship education, law-related education, and international educational exchange programs for developing democracies. Today, the Center administers a wide range of critically acclaimed curricular, professional development, and community-based programs.
Highlights:
The Center’s videos, podcasts, slide shows, and RSS feeds offer an effective way to learn about our programs, keep up to date with Center events, and engage with supplementary content that is focused on constitutional democracy and public policy. Our multimedia resources spotlight students, competitions, special events, special guests and leaders, speeches and lectures, professional development, imaginative and motivating educational materials, and Constitution-related subjects.
- an increased understanding of the institutions of constitutional democracy and the fundamental principles and values upon which they are founded,
- the skills necessary to participate as effective and responsible citizens, and
- the willingness to use democratic procedures for making decisions and managing conflict.
As part of its continuing commitment to improve the quality of civic education throughout the world, the Center offers numerous resources to educators, community-youth-group leaders, scholars, and other civic education practitioners, including most effective programs in civic education for democracy:
- We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution
- We the People: Project Citizen, the School Violence Prevention Demonstration Program
- Representative Democracy in America: Voices of the People, the Campaign to Promote Civic Education
- the Civitas International Programs
Links:
- Center for Civic Education - http://www.civiced.org
- Center for Civic Education (Facebook) - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Center-for-Civic-Education/29983098458
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