Is your high school classroom interested in funding to promote peer-to-peer learning on fundamental ideas of American democracy?

The Constitutional Rights Foundation (CRF) and the Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago (CRFC) will sponsor a national teach-in for 100 classes of high school students in coordination with National Youth Service Day, April 16-18, 2004. The teach-in will focus on curricular units devoted to core American issues: security, liberty, justice, and equality.

Interested classes simply need to complete and submit the national Teach-in Registration Form by February 20, 2004. Participating classes agree to: identify the lesson they want to teach and conduct a teach-in on or before National Youth Service Day; report their activity to the Constitutional Rights Foundation; and write to their U.S. Representative in Congress about their work.

The first 100 classes to register and agree to these requirements will receive a mini-grant of $250 which may be used to buy materials to conduct their teach-in, provide law-related education resources for their class or school library, host a teach-in conference with another school, or donate to a school club or charity.

The National Teach-In is a program of the Constitutional Rights Foundation and the Constitutional Rights Foundation Chicago in support of Youth for Justice, the national coordinated law-related education program of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention of the Unites States Department of Justice. Support for this program is provided in part by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention of the United States Department of Justice. Any ideas or opinions expressed during this institute do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of OJJDP or the United States Department of Justice.