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  • Answering the Call to Service

    WhiteHouseAnswering the Call to Service 
    The Office of Presidential Correspondence is accepting applications for the Summer Correspondence Associates Program. Correspondence Associates help staffers support President Obama's effort to maintain a dialogue with the American people. Applications are due April 1.
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  • Highlands High School Takes Kentucky State Title

    Kentucky-WethePeople-2012Highlands High School Takes Kentucky State Title 
    Highlands High School won the Kentucky state We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution championship on January 27. With the victory, the class earned the honor to represent Kentucky at the 25th Annual We the People National Finals at George Mason University and in Washington, D.C., April 27-May 1.
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  • Marshwood High School Wins in Maine

    Maine-WethePeople 2012Marshwood High School Wins in Maine 
    Students from Marshwood High School placed first in the Maine state We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution finals. Marshwood student Tim LaPointe said that the We the People program “sparked an interest in the Constitution, helped me get a better understanding of why the country is the way it is. Just given that context in history encourages me to delve deeper into understanding our government.”
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  • Incline High School Places First in Nevada We the People Finals

    InclineHS-WethePeople-2012Incline High School Places First in Nevada We the People Finals 
    Incline High School captured the Nevada state We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution championship with their first-place finish at the state finals on February 4. Reno High School finished second and Bishop Gorman High School placed third.
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  • SVPDP_literacy_linksLiteracy Links
    features lesson plans, writing prompts, literature connections, and much more to engage students in meaningful learning while building language arts knowledge and skills.
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  • animalPolicyStudents Shape Animal Policy
    Nashville mayor Karl Dean visited a Project Citizen class at Thurgood Marshall Middle School to sign a new city ordinance.

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  • companionGet More out of We the People
    High school students: get the most out of your study of We the People by visiting the We the People companion site.

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  • russiaCivics in Russia’s Far East
    Students in Eastern Russia met with the head of the Legislative Assembly of Primorie in a three-year civic education initiative called Civic Competence of Youth in the Far East.
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  • SVPDP_NativeAmericanCompendiumNative American Compendium
    provides lesson adaptations to the SVPDP curricula, which honor the customs, traditions, history, and realities of native students.
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