Our mission is to help prepare the next generation of citizens by working with educators to create programs that inform, inspire, and motivate students and to encourage civic participation to seek solutions to the many challenges that confront our nation today.
Our Challenge
For our democracy to succeed, we need to teach each new generation how to become informed and engaged citizens.
Congressman Lee H. Hamilton
Our Mission
"Comments on Congress"
Congressman Lee H. Hamilton is one of the nation’s foremost experts on Congress and representative democracy.
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Overview
This article is one of five focused on civic education written by members of the Civics Renewal Network. This special section appears in the January/February edition of Social Education, a publication of the National Council for the Social Studies.
Apps & Learning Modules
The Center on Representative Government has developed several cross-platform, multimedia resources for online and mobile devices.
Resources
For me as a classroom instructor, the best thing was having students who were engaged...they wanted to learn more.
Emily McCord, Batchelor Middle School