Student Perspectives: Jose Velazquez's Students

• Being a citizen
• Learning civics
• The candidates
• Voting
• The issues
• Jose Velazquez's teaching style
• Constructivist learning
• Group work

The students whose interview comments are excerpted below were enrolled in Jose Velazquez’s Law in Action course at University High School in Newark, New Jersey, when this program was videotaped. Here they discuss their experiences participating in the Student Voices Project, in which they identified and researched issues of importance to youth, studied the positions of candidates for mayor, and created a Youth Issues Agenda for presentation to the mayoral candidates.