The Learning Page Community Center Chat: October 21, 2004 I don t know how you could teach during an election year without making the After the election of 2000, one have to wonder if Americans still feel this http://memory.loc.gov/learn/community/chat/oct21_04.html
Eds Up! #97: Election 2000 PowerBook G3/400 DVD Special The correct name and password to enter are Name = teach Password = me You canaccess (Check Out the Scary Squirrel World election 2000 for some humor http://www.smalldog.com/newsarchive/edsup_display.php?id=80
Extractions: Former Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi took Internet campaigning to a whole new level, and, in the process, catapulted the obscure ex-governor of Vermont to front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. Trippi used the Internet to raise over $40 million in small donations, and to marshal a committed, decentralized corps of volunteer campaign workers. Dean may no longer be in the lead, but the political process will never be the same. Trippi will tell the story of how he used the Internet to change the rules of the game. MoveOn: Bringing Ordinary People Back into Politics In five short years, MoveOn.Org has become one of the largest and most effective advocacy organizations in the world, with more than two million members and a unique bottom-up style that allows the members to set the organization's priorities. MoveOn is working to bring ordinary people back into politics. With a system that today revolves around big money and big media, most citizens are left out. When it becomes clear that our "representatives" don't represent the public, the foundations of democracy are in peril. MoveOn is a catalyst for a new kind of grassroots involvement, supporting busy but concerned citizens in finding their political voice. Co-founder Wes Boyd will explain the principles and internet-based tools that make MoveOn so effective.
Indiana State Bar Association Online - Kids Election 2000 Project PEACE is designed to teach students interpersonal communications skills,which promote understanding, problem solving, critical thinking and http://www.inbar.org/content/communityor/projectpeace.asp
Extractions: from around the U.S. ISBA Legal Career Center ... community outreach PEACE (Peaceful Endings through Attorneys, Children and Educators) is a peer mediation training program sponsored by the Indiana Department of Education, Indiana State Bar Association and the Office of the Attorney General. Project PEACE is aimed at reducing conflicts and violence in schools by teaching children how to discuss and mediate their disagreements. The children become active participants in controlling disruptive behavior in their classroom by taking the role of mediator. The objective of Project PEACE is to neutralize minor conflicts before they become explosive confrontations, which often lead to violent acts. It teaches children who are still in their formative years how to alter their behavior and control their anger. Project PEACE is designed to teach students interpersonal communications skills, which promote understanding, problem solving, critical thinking and increased self-esteem positive qualities children need to become responsible adults.
Extractions: Subject: Miscellaneous Subjects #41: Some Feedbacks + A Ray of Hope from History + "Election 2000" From A Spiritual Point of View + Statistical Analysis of the Vote in Palm Beach County, Florida + Votescam: the Stealing of America + Military anguishes over missing ballots + Cannabis decriminalization in UK? + Middle East in freefall + Quotes from George W. Bush You will find below more interesting perspectives and unknown aspects to all this as well as some other topics worth looking at such as the possibility of Cannabis decriminalization in the UK and an analysis of why things went so wrong in the Middle East - more on this crisis in the next compilation.
Extractions: Related Articles Other Articles This Week ... Social Sciences Lesson Planning Article L E S S O N P L A N N I N G A R T I C L E The primaries and the political conventions are behind us now. The election campaign and the vote lie ahead. The lessons in this Education World resource are aimed at helping teachers capitalize on this once-every-four-years "teachable moment." Included: Lessons for teaching about the Electoral College and the importance of voting, plus a unique approach to staging a classroom debate about election issues! The upcoming elections offer a unique opportunity for students to learn about the political process and to witness the wheels of democracy in motion. Computer-savvy teachers and students can follow all the goings-on thanks to the Internet! Many online news sites will provide in-depth coverage. Among the potential classroom resources are the following online resources: Lesson Plans Too!
Antwon.com: Election 2000 election 2000 alaska 3 electoral votes and Hagelin left Stanford in themid 80s to teach physics at the Maharishi University of Management in http://www.antwon.com/other/election2000-AK.html
Extractions: Alaska is a relatively difficult state to understand. It's huge, but largely unpopulated; it's got a bunch of oil underneath it, which the oil industry values, but a bunch of unspoiled wildlife on top of it, which environmentalists value. Between divisions like these, the state is hard to get a read on. Mercifully, Alaska has one export that seemed to be generally accepted by everybody: Jewel Kilcher. For a while there, you couldn't get away from Jewelmania: she was on the radio, zillions of copies of her albums were sailing out of stores, and she even sang at the Super Bowl , for chrissakes. So the candidates' strategies here are simple: capture the "Jewel vote" and you've captured Alaska. Let's pair up Bush and Gore's personalities against various Jewel songs: Who Will Save Your Soul. Well, born Bush and Gore claim to be born-again Christians, so I guess this one will be a draw. You could make some sort of claim for the Gore ticket because of Lieberman's Jewish faith, but it's all the same Judeo-Christian belief system when you come down to it. Call it a draw. You Were Meant For Me.
Election 2000 You could teach others something about how the candidates and issues look from Soon after the election, we will hear a lot about the voter turnout rate, http://www.wwnorton.com/e-2000/mc092900.htm
Extractions: Campaign On the Net September 29 , 2000 Why California Voters Have It Best By Michael Cornfield Democracy needs voters who are competent enough to decide what's best for them. When enough people are informed and engaged, the political system works. Both conditions must apply: the best-informed person in the world doesn't help democracy if he is not sharing what he knows with others. And the biggest talker in the world doesn't help if he knows little about his subject. Californians this year can take advantage of two terrific Web sites. One, www.calvoter.org , will help them get informed about their electoral choices. The other, www.ballotmaker.com , will help them find other people to discuss those choices. These sites set the (pardon the pun) gold standard for online voter education. (Ballotmaker is set up for Colorado and Oregon as well as the Golden State.) They are non-partisan, up-to-date, and -in contrast to the otherwise outstanding Minnesota E-Democracy, www.e-democracy.org
Extractions: Use Children's Literature to Teach About Elections: Ten Books Get Our Vote! The presidential elections are just around the corner, so teachers may want to check out this list of ten books to help students learn about elections and the election process. Included: Books for students of all ages! This year's presidential elections offer teachers a unique opportunity to teach youngsters about character, leadership, and the meaning of participatory government. Teachers might use the ten books listed below to help to illuminate those issues. Any of the books would make excellent additions to a school or classroom library; most would be great as "read alouds" or to prompt discussion about the upcoming elections. Each book is listed and then briefly described. Approximate age ranges are listed too.
Extractions: University at Buffalo The case is written for a junior or senior level undergraduate course in Human Factors or Ergonomics. It would also be appropriate for a similar level course in Human Computer Interaction or User Centered Design. It is important to note that there are many more issues regarding the design of voting systems that are not addressed in this case study, including issues of voter registration, vote security (particularly with computerized systems), vote confidentiality, use of absentee ballots, training of poll workers, etc. Instructors wishing a more complete background on issues surrounding voting are referred to the citations in the case, particularly the reports generated by the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, the IEEE Standard, and information provided by the FEC. As written, the case can be completed in two 80-minute or two 50-minute (with some out-of-class work) class periods. Inclusion of these additional topics would be appropriate to expand the case to a longer in- or out-of-class design project or laboratory exercise. Material cited in the case, as well as the web sites provided in the following bibliography, would be useful in creating expanded exercises based on this case. To have students apply knowledge in user centered design to a real life design problem.
Extractions: University at Buffalo Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2001a ), the voting process more generally (registration process, verification of voters at the polls, training of poll workers, repair and maintenance of voting equipment), and various proposals for system redesign ( Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2001b ). For instance, standards being developed by organizations such as the Federal Election Commission and IEEE include recommendations regarding the design of the user interface to the voting system, including requirements for user testing, access for disabled voters, and the provision of feedback to voters regarding errors ( Federal Election Commission, 2002 IEEE Standards Coordinating Committee 38, 2002 ). Similar considerations (access for the disabled, recognition and correction of voting errors) are included in a recently signed federal law ( ). Other groups have documented difficulties that physically and perceptually challenged individuals have in reaching polling places and casting votes privately and independently (
Extractions: Though many students cannot participate or are not planning to participate in this year's election, they will most likely be eligible to vote in the next presidential election. But what will they need to do? How do they register? How will they know for whom to vote? In order to be prepared for this awesome responsibility, they will need to go through "voter training." Students should imagine they are about to turn 18, or have just turned 18. What would they need to do to prepare to vote? The students will most likely come up with the following progression: Am I eligible to vote? This question would lead into the lesson called The Voter. The lesson plan for The Voter challenges students to investigate who is eligible to vote in an election today, and how those criteria have changed over time. Once students have this basic understanding of who can and cannot vote, they are ready to examine the issues and determine where they stand.
Election 2000 A Lesson In Experimental Psychology - Psi Chi The 2000 presidential election was frustrating for many, each day waking to He has written several articles on teaching the science of psychology and http://www.psichi.org/pubs/articles/article_62.asp
Teaching The Election Teaching the election election 2000 The Campaign Connectionhttp//election2000.8m.com/links.htm. election2000 Tracking the Candidates andthe Issues http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/electlinks.html
Extractions: Teaching the Election ABCNEWS.com Politcal Nation http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/ American President: Election 2000 http://www.americanpresident.org/election2000.htm America Votes (memorabilia from past campaigns from Duke University Special Collections Library) http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/americavotes/ Atlas of US Presidential Elections http://uselectionatlas.org/ Campaign Cartoons http://cagle.slate.msn.com/2000/ Center for Responsive Politics: Your Online Guide to Money in American Politics http://www.opensecrets.org/home/index.asp CNN All Politics.com http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/ C-SPAN: Campaign 2000 http://www.c-span.org/campaign2000/ Democracy Project http://www.pbs.org/democracy/ Democratic National Committee http://www.democrats.org/index.html Education Planet Election 2000! http://www.educationplanet.com/articles/electionday.html Election Connection http://exchange.co-nect.net/Teleprojects/project/Election Election 2000: The Campaign Connection http://election2000.8m.com/links.htm Election2000: Tracking the Candidates and the Issues (lesson plan) http://socialstudies.com/c/@bn3LljRbVotEw/Pages/article.html?article@election2000
Elections 2000 Links And Lesson Plans Elections 2000 Links and Lesson Plans for Elementary School teachers. A growing collection of links to help you teach your students about the first http://k6educators.about.com/library/blelection2000.htm
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TeachersFirst's Election 2000 Page TeachersFirst s collection of election 2000 resources and lesson plans for K12teachers. http://www.teachersfirst.com/election/
Extractions: Election 2000 Revisited When we posted the Electoral College map, we had no idea how important it would be to the outcome of Election 2000. These pages provide an archive of Election 2000 resources still available on the web. We have also added links to the numerous court cases and decisions that helped determine the final outcome of the election. We have also retained our very popular Election Quiz, which is accessible from the link below. Web sites from candidates as they stood just prior to the election. Many of these no longer function. The mainstream and the extreme - what they're saying, who listens, and what their impact might be. How our representative democracy works, who pays for it, how you can teach about it, and resources that can help. Links and information that chronicle the long process by which the outcome of Election 2000 was decided. For Students : Take the TeachersFirst Election Quiz - An interactive quiz that lets students check their understanding of the federal election process.
The Body: Election 2000 Presidential Candidate Report election 2000 Presidential Candidate Report, at The Body, the complete The controversy was over AIDS teaching materials, and whether they should be http://www.thebody.com/aac/candidates.html
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Education: Political Leaders' Views (Sep 2000); Hold schools accountable and teach character. (May 2000);Tax money to religious schools OK, if theyre teaching kids. http://www.ontheissues.org/Education.htm
Election 2000 No law school was more caught up in the election and the postelection feverthan Stanford Law School, Dean Kathleen M. Sullivan said, whether it was http://www.law.stanford.edu/publications/lawyer/issues/60/election2000_dean.html
Extractions: Dean Kathleen Sullivan Sullivan served as co-counsel with Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe, on the first election-related case that went to the U.S. Supreme Court [ Bush v. Palm Beach Canvassing Commission Bush v. Palm Beach and the second round, Bush v. Gore Bush v. Gore as garden variety equal protection case. You have to teach it as something more momentous, more about the relationship between the court and the political process, something closer to teaching about Brown v. Board [of Education] Sullivan said that, as a casebook author, she would place Bush v. Gore In addition to developing a deep appreciation for how the courts work, Sullivan pointed out a second positive outcome of the case: the development of the private, bipartisan National Commission on Federal Election Reform. She was recently appointed, along with former Senator Slade Gorton of Washington, as one of the vice chairs of the commission. ( See NewsBriefs Sullivan said she got involved in the election reform movement by way of writing an op-ed in the New York Times The coincidence of the furor over the election, the op-ed piece, and the board meeting provided the impetus needed for the foundation to became one of the major sponsors of this private election reform commission, Sullivan said.
Election 2000 We were provided with a wonderful teaching vehiclewonderful for teaching election 2000 Epilogue was streamed over the Web and cable cast on http://www.law.stanford.edu/publications/lawyer/issues/60/election2000.html
Extractions: MSNBC and CNN simultaneously. T THE TURN OF THE CENTURY, satirist Finley Peter Dunn created a fictional character by the name of Mr. Dooley. Records show that Dooley was a Chicago bartender who had an exceptionally keen understanding of how the political process worked. One summer evening, after a considerable time of bending the elbow with his friend, Mr. Hennessey, Dooley reached over the bar, drew his best mate close, and whispered what he knew to be an ultimate truth: Sorry to say, Mr. Dooley, but Bush v. Gore turned that one inside out, for this time the election returns followed the Supreme Court, whose pivotal December 12 decision Bush v. Gore helped seal the victory of President George W. Bush in Florida and thus the nation. When Elections Go Bad: The Law of Democracy and the Presidential Election of 2000 (Foundation Press, 2001), from which Mr. Dooley was borrowed, quite liberally. Karlan, the Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law, wrote the first casebook on the election early this year, working with Samuel Issacharoff, Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, and Richard H. Pildes, Professor of Law at New York University School of Law.
