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How do you talk about politics and elections in the classroom?

Schoolbook-50 SchoolBook Editors • March 5, 2012, 6:47 PM
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Jerilyn Kelle • March 7, 2012, 6:38 PM

Distinguish between "partisan" politics that's divisive and based on a win-lose paradigm of competing factions, and "self-governing" politics that is necessary for all citizens to be aware of and involved in to keep (or gain) the rights conferred to all Americans by the U.S. Constitution. I call it "ACE'ing" the test of democratic (non-partisan) citizenship by learning Agency, Civility, and Equality, in theory and in practice.

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