America’s Legislators Back to School Week

Ⅰ. Time

—The third week of September is the (1) of America’s Legislators Back to School Week.

Ⅱ. How to do

—The NCSL provides educational materials about our system of (2) .
—NCSL contracted with TPACT to design a (3) study of the program’s impact.

Ⅲ. Purpose

—To evaluate the impact of the America’s Legislators Back to School Program on (4) students’ understanding and appreciation of representative democracy.
—To get young people to take part in the (5) of the change.
Explain how they (6) .
Young people’s ideas can influence the (7) process.
Dealt with a (8) that they argued would harm the environment.

Ⅳ. Impact

—A teacher in South Dakota said his class learned a lot about (9) from a visit by a state lawmaker.
—The evaluation of this program shows it results in significantly higher levels of understanding and (10) of representative democracy among middle school students.