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Davida Lindsay-Harewood

Constitution for the United States - We the People - 26 views

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    A highly accessible, easy to use online version full text transcript including the Bill of Rights and the rest of the Amendments with both sequential and subject indexes.
Caroline Kuhn

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/388838/GCE_AS... - 3 views

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    The 2016 math changes for GCSE and A levels
Deborah Baillesderr

Whitehouse Grounds View | The White House - 36 views

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    Virtual Field Trip:  interactive tour of the White House
Michael Sheehan

5 Free educational resources from the U.S. Government (Part 1) - 149 views

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    Check out these 5 terrific (and free) educational resources from the U.S. government.
Michele Brown

Keith Hughes - YouTube - 48 views

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    Presents short overviews of key concepts and events in U.S. history and government. Engaging and fun.
Michele Amato

Declaration of Independence - 35 views

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    A short activity with some questions using primary document. From a different state.
Jim Aird

How to Improve Public Online Education: Report Offers a Model - Government - The Chroni... - 18 views

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  • patchwork collection of online courses that's difficult for students to navigate.
  • they can improve their online-education efforts to help students find streamlined, affordable pathways to a degree.
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  • "Taken together, these steps result in something that looks less like an unorganized collection of Internet-based classes, and more like a true public university."
  • I am always miffed at the people within Higher Ed who recognize that nothing about pedagogy has changed in 50 years except computers and PowerPoint but they still rationalize that nothing needs changed or fixed.
Michael Sheehan

Learning Never Stops: Huge Collection of Free Government Resources for Education - 6 views

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    Animations, primary documents, photograph collections, videos, maps, articles, and the lists goes on and its all FREE.
Jac Londe

Big food corporations work with corrupt government agencies to eliminate "small time" c... - 25 views

  • Big food corporations work with corrupt government agencies to eliminate “small time” competition and take over the industry Published on Thu, Feb 28, 2013 by Mihai Andre
  • Three companies now account for more than 40 per cent of global coffee sales, eight companies control most of the supply of cocoa and chocolate, seven control 85 per cent of tea production, five account for 75 per cent of the world banana trade, and the largest six sugar traders account for about two-thirds of world trade, according to the new publication from the Fairtrade Foundation.
Jeff Kinney

Retro Videos: Free Classroom and Homeschool Educational films & videos for Science, Soc... - 4 views

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    Old classroom videos (filmstrips)
rosssgsis

Government flashcards | Quizlet - 86 views

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    How we organize ourselves
rosssgsis

Forms of Government flashcards | Quizlet - 37 views

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    How we organize ourselves
Benjamin Hare

2012 Presidential Election Interactive Map and History of the Electoral College - 86 views

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    270 to win looks at the electoral college maps of the United States.
Michele Brown

Constitution of the United States - Official - 2 views

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     A complete transcript of the Constitution that you can read online. In addition to the transcript, you can view high-resolution images of the original document and learn more about its creation and ratification.
Charles Cooper

Super PACs: How We Got Here, Where We Need to Go - 26 views

  • Not content with this, all these lawyers and campaign professionals came up with the next big idea — only months ago.&nbsp; Let’s film candidates talking about their issues, and run the ads in key states, but it won’t count as “coordinated” with the candidate under the FEC’s “Swiss cheese” definitions because the ads won’t have the candidate say “vote for me.”
  • &nbsp; An Independent Expenditure Only Multicandidate Non-Connected Political Committee
  • Speech Now v. FEC that if independent expenditures could not be limited as to the amount that could be spent because they are not corrupting, then there is no justification for limiting the amount that can be raised for those expenditures
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  • Members of Congress facing re-election in 2012, speaking on camera (or in voice-over, in the case of a radio advertisement) about one or more legislative or policy issues
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    Super pac, pac, elections, politics
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