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by Bob Gibson Reversing the loss of an informed and involved electorate should be a top national and state priority if rights and freedoms born in Virginia more than two centuries ago are to be preserved as the necessary safeguards of our form of government… READ MORE: http://www.coopercenter.org/publications/sitefiles/vanl/vanl0809.pdf
Building a Better Citizen – How the government can make us better at self-government. By David Villano, Nov. 2, 2009 A very informative article showing examples of good civic engagement and the benefits reaped from communities that practice this initiative. The article even features Hampton, VA as the lead success story. Click here to [...]
Peter Levine, author of The Future of Democracy and co-author of The Deliberative Democracy Handbook, blogs about some recent conversations he has had with other civic engagement/education scholars on the use of social media in civic engagement projects involving youth. For example, Marina Bers of Tufts University led a project during 2005 and 2006 called [...]
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