• REVISED:   We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution Guide to Building a Classroom Program, or How to Prepare for the Culminating Activity, by David Richmond, Centennial High School, Bakersfield, CA and Mark Oglesby, Howell High School, Howell, MI with the assistance of numerous mentors around the country (Word document)
   
• Northwest Voice: Centennial High School and We The People
  An Article in the Northwest Voice (Bakersfield, CA) regarding the High School we The People program at Centennial high School.
   
• The Ten Commandments of Citizenship - Lee Hamilton (NEW)
  
   
• Quotations for Use in Civic Education (PDF)
   
• The Constitution and Education for Citizenship in America by John Patrick (Word document)
   
• Civic Education and a Healthy Democracy – An Interview with Ted McConnell (The Politic: Yale University, November 10, 2007)
  An interview with the Center of Civic Education's Director of the Campaign to Promote Civic Education in which he discusses closing the achievement gap, No Child Left Behind Act, and volunteerism, among other topics. "When Horace Mann and other pioneers first advocated for our first system of public education in this country in the early nineteenth century, their principal motivation for doing so was a realization that a representative democracy was a new
  thing to the world and we had to educate our citizens about it in order to maintain it."
   
• Health of our Democracy and Our Economy Go Hand in Hand & Sounding the Call for Civic Education by Lee H. Hamilton & William F. Goodling (Word document)
  Two former members of Congress — Democrat Lee H. Hamilton, and Republican William F. Goodling — issue a joint, bipartisan appeal for America to equip our young people with the knowledge and skills they need to become fully engaged citizens.
   
• Hey, Young Americans, Here's a Text For You (The Washington Post, Sunday, November 25, 2007; Page B04, By Naomi Wolf) and follow up article That's More Like It! (The Washington Post, November 30, 2007)
   
• An Introduction to the Political Philosophy of the Constitution by Duane Smith, Associate Director, Center for Civic Education, January 1, 2000)
   
• Two-Dozen Recent, Good Books for Civic Educators selected and annotated by Margaret S. Branson, June 25, 2007 (Word document)
   
• 'MyVote California' Launched to Encourage Teen Civic Engagement (Government Technology, November 9, 2007)
  To engage teen voters-to-be in the excitement of the February 5, 2008, Presidential Primary Election, Secretary of State Debra Bowen and Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell launched MyVote California, a hands-on civic engagement project for high-school students that will culminate in a statewide mock election in January.
   
• Opinion: Civic education is lacking (Norman Y. Mineta, Silicon Valley Mercury News, September 16th, 2008, Word Document)
   
• What binds America is values in our Constitution (Leon Panetta San Francisco Chronicle, Wednesday, September 17th, 2008, Word Document)
   
• A democracy without civics? | csmonitor.com (Sandra Day O'Connor and Lee H. Hamilton, Christian Science Monitor, September 18th, 2008)
   

Other Books Recommended by We the People Teachers

Book	Author
America’s Constitution – A Biography	Akhil Reed Amar
The Bill of Rights	Akhil Reed Amar
Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney	James F. Simon
A March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of the United States, Volumes I & II	Melvin Urofsky and Paul Finkleman
Documents of American Constitutional and Legal History, Volumes I & II	Melvin Urofsky and Paul Finkleman
Interpreting the Constitution, The Debate Over Original Intent	Edited by Jack Rakove
Original Intent and the Framers’ Constitution	Leonard W. Levy
Constitutional Law for a Changing America	Lee Epstein and Thomas G. Walker
The Words We Live By, The Annotated Guide to the Constitution	Linda Monk
The Broken Branch: How Congress is Failing America and How to Get it Back on Track	Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein
Founding the Republic, A Documentary History	Edited by John J. Patrick