The Law, Youth and Citizenship Program is proud of its network of partners throughout the state, nation and world.

It takes a village . . .

Helpful LRE/Civics Links

• Law, Youth and Citizenship Program of the New York State Bar Association

www.lycny.org

Publications, programs, law-related links, Mock Trial, NYS Civic Missionof Schools, professional development opportunities, etc.

• We the People & Project Citizen

www.civiced.org

Nationally acclaimed civic education programs administered by the NYSBA

• New York State Civics Roadmap

www.nyscms.org

Presents a preK-12 civics education scope and sequence for New York  Stateteachers, supervisors, and curriculum developers. Correlated to the national and state civic standards for social studies and English language arts. Includes student learning activities along with student and teacher resources and websites. 

• Foundations of Democracy Series

www.civiced.org/catalog_foundations.php

Curricular materials for students K-12 on Authority, Privacy, Responsibility & Justice

• National Standards for Civics & Government

www.civiced.org/stds.html

• New York State Social Studies Standards

www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/socst/ssrg.html

• American Bar Association

www.abanet.org/publiced/resources/home.html

• National Council for the Social Studies

www.ncss.org

• State Court Watch

www.statecourtwatch.org

A resource for teachers and students that makes connections between New York State case law and the subjects required by the New York Social Studies Standards. 

• Brown v Board

www.brownvboard.net

Sponsored by the New York State Bar Association and minority Bar associations, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Helps bring the case to middle and high school students through dynamic lesson plans incorporating primary documents and the 2005 commemoration testimony.

• SweetSearch

www.sweetsearch.com/socialstudies

SweetSearch is a search engine for students. It searches only the 35,000 Web sites that its staff of research experts, librarians and teachers have evaluated and approved when creating the content. It evaluates search results and "fine-tunes" them, by increasing the ranking of Web sites from organizations such as the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, PBS and university websites.  SweetSearch helps students find outstanding information, faster. It enables them to determine the most relevant results from a list of credible resources, and makes it much easier for them to find primary sources.