The Voices of Your Classroom are the Voices of Our Future
"It is essential that we provide children with an environment conducive to the learning about, practicing of, and valuing of good citizenship and responsible involvement in national life," Everett Dirksen wrote in The Instructor (March 1967) reproduced here.

What Every Student Should Know about Congress
Suppose you had fifteen minutes to describe the ten most important features of the U.S. Congress - could you do it? What would appear on your list? Judging by most opinion polls and survey results, few Americans could pull it off. So The Dirksen Congressional Center asked leading American political scientist Charles O. Jones to identify the ten most important points that a high school student should know about Congress.

What High School Government Teachers Should Know about Congressional Elections
Political scientist Jeff Bernstein explains why incumbents win re-election at such an astounding rate and offers suggestions about how to teach the subject to high school and college students.

What I Wish Political Scientists Would Teach about Congress
Lee Hamilton, former member of the House of Representatives and director of the Woodrow Wilson Center, explains ten lessons every political scientist should teach his or her students about Congress.

Reporting on Congress: The Role of the Media
Stephanie Larson, political scientist specializing in media coverage of politics, presents a brief overview of reporting on Congress. She explains why a teacher might tackle the subject, suggests how to approach the teaching of this information, and summarizes recent scholarship on the role of media in covering Congress. The selection includes a bibliography of major books on Congress and the media, 1980-2005.