July 30
Connecting Classrooms to Congress
Ohio State’s Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability has been awarded a $2 million grant from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the statistics, research and evaluation arm of the U.S. Department of Education. The team will develop and test a social studies curriculum module, “Connecting Classrooms to Congress,” that will give high school seniors an opportunity to study a pressing public policy issue and meet with their member of Congress to discuss the issue in an innovative online setting called a Deliberative Town Hall.