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Alabama Redistricting
Daily News Lesson January 26 2022

How the 2020 census data has started new gerrymandering battles
Explore how census results lead to battles over how states are divided into political districts
Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Jim Crow 2021: The Latest Assault on the Right to Vote, in Washington
Daily News Lesson January 13 2022

Sen. Warnock on the prospects for voting rights legislation: ‘This is about our democracy’
Hear from one Democratic senator on why his party sees voting rights as a priority in Congress
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Daily Video November 04 2020

What to discuss with your students on the day after Election Day
Topics to discuss on Nov. 4th: how votes are counted, media literacy and contested elections from U.S. history
Singer Aretha Franklin performs during the inauguration cere
Post November 02 2020

Top 10 songs for Election 2020
Photo of John Lennon with Yoko Ono behind wearing blindfold, performing Instant Karma. Photo by Ron…
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Daily Video November 02 2020

Teaching Resources for Election Day: Gen Z's Prom at the Polls!
Engage your students this Election Day with these outside-the-box activities!
FILE PHOTO: People vote at an early voting site in Fairfax, Virginia
Daily Video October 15 2020

Which is better: Paper ballot or voting machine?
What do experts and voting officials think is the most secure way to vote?
FILE PHOTO: A voting booth is seen at a polling center inside a fire station in the Coral Gables neighbourhood during the Democratic presidential primary election in Miami
Post October 09 2020

Educator Voice: How to empower students this election season
By Sari Beth Rosenberg For the first time in my 19 years of teaching, I met my new student…
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Lesson Plan October 07 2020

Lesson plan: Down-ballot voting and the role of local elections

Understand the importance of local elections and ballot measures with this lesson plan
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Lesson Plan August 28 2020

Lesson plan: Build your own knowledge of the suffrage movement

Learn some of the often overlooked stories of the suffrage movement
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Daily Video August 17 2020

At the centennial of the 19th Amendment, what does gender inequality look like?

A hundred years after women won the right to vote in every state, what is the pandemic doing to erase gains toward equality?
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