American Government 10/26/09

In Class - Continue to work in groups on your educational reform bill. Works cited (15 sources per group) is due by Wednesday, October 28. Also, Political Cartoon Project due on Thursday, October 29.

Homework - Continue to research for works cited. Political Cartoon project due on Thursday.

Articles to check out:

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/building-a-bill-in-congress.html#

http://www.fedstats.gov/ - statistics from the US federal government

http://nces.ed.gov/Forum/nclb_links.asp - NCLB Resources

http://www.ed.gov/nclb/landing.jhtml - official state and federal NCLB site

http://www.publicagenda.org/ - Helping Americans Explore Today's Issues

http://www.publicagenda.org/ - Find stats on student performance, spending revenue, tax data, school environment

http://www.cde.ca.gov/nclb/sr/tq/tiiresources.asp -

http://www.lii.org/pub/topic/statistics -

http://www.lib.umich.edu/government-documents-center/explore/ - a central reference and referral point for government information