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With a comic book designed to help educators teach their students about democracy and governance, CCS cartoonists are visiting classrooms in the Midwest this fall.
White River Junction, VT, September 16, 2019 — The annual Annenberg Constitution Day Civics Survey finds that only 26% of Americans can name all three branches of government. The Mikva Challenge and The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS), two non-profit organizations, are teaming up to increase that number.
This is What Democracy Looks Like: A Graphic Guide to Governance is a 32-page comic book that will be distributed to classrooms in Detroit, Chicago, Madison, Milwaukee, and more this fall. This comic book is the result of a collaboration of educators and word-class cartoonists and is designed to help teachers who are working hard to prepare students to be empowered, informed, and civic-minded. At each school, CCS instructors will give away comics and work with teachers to help students gain a deeper understanding of how their government works (and doesn’t work) and how they can make a difference in their communities and beyond.
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Tags: Civics Education, Comics, Comics in the classroom, Democracy Visualized, Mikva Challenge
