Student Perspectives: Alice Chandler's Students

• Socratic questioning
• Cooperative learning groups
• Rubrics
• Group projects
• Patriotism
• Alice Chandler's teaching style
• Studying civics
• Combining civics and the arts
• Constructivist learning environments

The students whose interview comments are excerpted below were seniors in a one-semester course in U.S. government at Duke Ellington School of the Arts, a magnet high school in Washington, D.C. Here they discuss their experiences creating a Museum of Patriotism and Foreign Policy.