Educational Partners

Forged from the creative energy that brought you the Discovery Channel, Discovery Education enriches classrooms, empowers teachers and captivates students around the world through high-quality, dynamic digital content. Discovery Education supports school districts’ transition to digital learning through award-winning digital textbooks, interactive lessons, real-time assessment, virtual experiences, classroom contests and challenges, professional development and more.

The Discovery Education Techbook™ series provides unrivaled content that ignites students’ curiosity and substantially lowers district costs via a powerful, user-friendly program. With digital assets such as these, school districts can capture the minds and imaginations of students, and accelerate student achievement.

Discovery’ Education’s transformative inspiration will augment both the Chase the Race 2016 program and its culminating Presidential Inaugural Conference, through classroom activities, cross-curricular lesson starters, workshops and live video streaming events.

In 1987 William Hughes Fitzhugh founded The Concord Review Inc. (TCR), to celebrate high school history research by publishing students’ history papers. More than 1,000 high school students from 34 countries have now been published in this unique journal. In 2002, Fitzhugh and the TCR expanded their mission by offering the National History Club (NHC) as a vehicle to join students and teachers from around the world in discovering, learning, reading, writing, teaching and living history. Through the NHC, students and teachers share their passion for history, learning from each other's ideas and experiences.

History helps equip students to understand and tackle the issues of today’s world. History touches on all aspects of the human condition: politics, art, religion, culture, philosophy, ethics, the economy, military aggression and scientific discovery. Everyone is a part of history. Yet, the study of history is declining in secondary schools and a 2014 survey showed that fewer than half of American 8th graders knew the purpose of the Bill of Rights and 3/4 of high school seniors were unable to name a power granted to Congress by the Constitution.

The NHC is taking action to make the study of history a more important part of every student’s secondary school education. There are now more than 500+ NHC chapters, with more than 14,000 members in 44 states. The NHC is proud to take part in programs such as Chase the Race 2016, through which young Americans can experience history as it’s being made.

http://www.nationalhistoryclub.org

By providing teachers with exceptional civics education materials and programs, the Youth Leadership Initiative (YLI) at the University of Virginia Center for Politics helps empower students to take responsibility for our democracy. In 1998 UVA professor Larry J. Sabato founded the YLI to combat the apathy and cynicism that he saw in his politics students. The YLI provides everything educators need to engage their students in the democratic process, absolutely free of charge.

Professor Sabato believed that high-quality civics education programs could energize students to accept the responsibilities of citizenship and become lifelong participants in American democracy. Activities such as the yearly Mock Election, E-Congress and Democracy Corps, along with YLI lesson plans are infused with simulations and hands-on projects that connect students with the political process. These extraordinary curriculum resources will further enrich the Chase the Race 2016 program.

www.youthleadership.net

Founded in 2008 by Brown University students Anna Ninan and Scott Warren, Generation Citizen (GC) works to ensure that every student in the United States receives an effective action civics education, which provides them with the knowledge and skills necessary to participate in our democracy as active citizens.

Envisioning a country of young people working as active and effective citizens to collectively rebuild our American democracy, GC believes that students must participate in the political process to understand how it functions. Through an innovative in-class curriculum, GC teaches teenagers how to take effective political action. Students work with local leaders to fix local problems, and through this real-world experience, our teens are building an active democracy.

Generation Citizen is building a new generation of youth activists and leaders; a generation inspired and equipped to make change. Over 30,000 middle and high school students have taken real action on important community issue through Generation Citizen.

www.generationcitizen.org