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Research and
Development
Youth for Justice has supported the research
and development of a number of
new LRE models. The Constitutional Rights
Foundation Chicago created a supplementary
fourth and fifth grade curriculum,
Violence-Prevention Outcomes in Civic Education
(VOICE), that teaches U.S. history
and government using mediation, LRE, and
service learning as primary teaching strategies.
The Center for Civic Education and
the Constitutional Rights Foundation collaborated
to create the Bell Gardens Research
Project, which uses LRE and civic
education and service to enhance knowledge
about U.S. and world history in the
fourth and fifth grades. Street Law, Inc.,
created Parents and the Law, a program
that provides lessons focused on legal topics
such as child support, paternity, custody,
and housing to help young parents
improve their family life. These models
were favorably evaluated in the late 1990’s
and are now being replicated nationally
through teacher training and technical
assistance from the national projects
(Social Sciences Education Consortium,
1998b; Esfondari, 1998; Clawson and
Shelden, 1998).
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