Endnotes

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Civics Mosaic is funded by a grant, R304A020002-03, from the United States Department of Education. However, the contents of Civics Mosaic material do not necessarily represent the policy of, or assume endorsement by, the Department of Education.

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Gabriel A. Almond, G. Bingham Powell, Jr., Kaare Strom, and Russell Dalton, Comparative Politics Today: A World View , updated 7th edition (New York: Longman, 2003).

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We commissioned Dr. Margaret Stimmann Branson to take on the daunting task of answering that question as the lead author of our textbook. As Associate Director of the Center for Civic Education, Dr. Branson has been involved in many writing projects that ably prepared her for this task. Those projects include: We the People.The Citizen and the Constitution, one of the leading textbooks on American constitutional government; the National Standards for Civics and Government; the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test in Civics; and Res Publica: An International Framework for Education in Democracy, an international civics framework.

Civics Mosaic: Comparing Political Systems is being written by Dr. Branson with the editorial assistance of Stephen L. Schechter and Thomas S. Vontz

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Authentic Achievement: Restructuring Schools for Intellectual Quality (San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1996).

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"Designing Professional Development that Works," Educational Leadership (May 2000).

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Conditions that Support Transfer Change (Arlington Heights, IL: IRI Skylight, 1997).

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"Positive Professional Environment" in The Active School edited by Stephen Schechter, Kevin Spensley and Anna Zelentsova ( Washington , DC : American Councils for International Education and Civitas-Russia, April 2002), pp. 46-55.

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"Designing and Implementing Effective Professional Development in Civic Education," paper presented at the Fourth Annual R. Freeman Butts Institute on Civic Learning in Teacher Education, Indiana University , May 2004.

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This section was prepared by Tina Goodwin Segal, Magi Education Services, who leads the independent evaluation of this program.

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The U.S Department of Education has prepared several SBR guides for teachers, Using Research and Reason in Education and Identifying (May 2003) and Implementing Educational Practices Supported by Rigorous Evidence: A User Friendly Guide (December 2003). The What Works Clearinghouse (2002) is administered by the U.S. Department of Education through a contract to a joint venture of the American Institutes for Research and the Campbell Corporation. This is a web-based (w-w-c. org) resource for determining the strength of evidence for various educational interventions and topics.