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Seventy-one Percent of Americans Fail Civic Literacy Exam
College seniors have failed the civil literacy exams over the last few years, according to ISI. Is it any surprise that a survey of Americas report the same failing statistics? According to a study of 2800 respondents, thirty percent of elected officials do not know that “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” are the unalienable rights referred to in the Declaration of Independence.
Declaration of Independence Song CD
Fun sing-alongs make learning the words of the Declaration of Independence fun!
Teachers and Parents Reviews
"My first graders loved to sing along -- especially the chorus. We sang it in class everyday. The students really learned the words!" --- Judy Stone, Eastside Elementary, Brooksville, FL
"My 2nd grade students really enjoy learning with music." --- Glenda Roach, Harrisburg Elementary School, Harrisburg, Arkansas
“ The students enjoyed singing it and it reinforced their assignment of memorizing the Preamble to the Declaration. --- Kathy Lubby, 5th Grade, North Ridge Elementary, N. Richland Hills, TX
Celebrate Freedom Week
Florida: September 20 - 24, 2010
Arkansas: September 20 - 24, 2010
Oklahoma: November 8 - 12, 2010
Texas: Week of September 17, 2010
Celebrate Freedom Week, initiated by state lawmakers in Texas, Florida, Arkansas and Oklahoma, was created to help reverse a troubling trend among America’s students: Many of America’s students don’t know the basics of American history.
Celebrate Freedom Week helps educate students about America’s founding freedoms, focusing on the significance and meaning of the Declaration of Independence.
View a video about Florida’s Celebrate Freedom Week program.
Resources
Celebrate Freedom Week Statutes for Texas, Florida, Arkansas, Oklahoma
Video: History of Celebrate Freedom Week In Florida
FreedomFacts.org helps students across America learn the importance of America’s founding freedoms expressed in it’s founding document, The Declaration of Independence:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator, With certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
from The Declaration of Independence, 1776
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Two Sing-Alongs Make Learning the Words of the Declaration of Independence Fun!
These truths have the power to release people from what holds them back. For early Americans, these truths helped transform English colonists into American revolutionaries; Abraham Lincoln claimed these truths when he championed the Emancipation Proclamation; Elizabeth Cady Stanton claimed these truths in her 1848 'Declaration of Sentiments for womens voting rights; Martin Luther King declared these truths in 1963 in his 'I Have a Dream' speech for civil rights.
Chinese students in Tiananmen Square quoted these truths in their protests against comunist China in 1989.
These truths also hold power every day for free Americans who strive to learn, to grow and to better their lives. Please join us in helping teach them to America's students. Resources are available for teachers and parents and students, including fun online games and a free sing-along that has helped over 50,000 students learn the words of this important document.
