Show #11
Initial Air Dates:
Monday, January 31at 6:30 pm
Saturday, February 5 at 7 am

Teaching Democracy - Cherokee High School students from Marlton will visit the New Jersey State House to learn more about state government. The students will meet with legislators that represent their district and learn more about how laws are made.

Disney Teacher 2004-05 - Casey LaRosa was honored nationally in the category of Humanities for Middle School by the Disney Teacher Awards program. LaRosa teaches U.S. History to 7th and 8th graders at Mount Hebron Middle School in Montclair.

State House Express - Meet Alan Rosenthal, with the Eagleton Institute of Politics from Rutgers State University. Rosenthal created a program called State House Express to provide grants for New Jersey's Middle and High School civic students to travel to the Capitol to learn more about state government. For more information, go to www.eagleton.rutgers.edu.

Election - Most people claim they voted on the issues during the last presidential election . . . but did they really? Imagine if the candidates were only identified by a number and a list of their stand on important issues like the war, the economy, health care and education - would you have voted the same? Fourth and fifth graders at Village School in Princeton Junction learned a real civics lesson on Nov. 2. They weren't told the party affiliation and they had no idea the name of the candidates. See which president these informed voters elected!