Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Lesson Summary: Public Policy and Economic Growth
In this lesson summary review and remind yourself of the key terms and concepts related to how policymakers can influence economic growth. This resource is designed as a review for the AP Macroeconomics Test or a college-level...
Center For Civic Education
Center for Civic Education: Project Citizen
This project is intended to help students learn how to express their opinions, and how to decide which level of government and which agency is most appropriate for dealing with a problem they identify. They then gather relevant...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Democracy in Amer: Interest Groups: Organizing to Influence
This unit probes into the role political interest groups plays in both complicating and influencing public policy making in America. Offers video, readings, web resources, and activities.
iCivics
I Civics: The Public Sphere
Students discover the relationships among the concepts of public sphere, public agenda, public opinion, public policy, and how they influence the issues we all discuss and care about.
iCivics
I Civics: Interest Groups
students will learn how people form interest groups, and how they influence the government. This lesson uses the battle over school lunch ingredients to illustrate how interest groups and lobbying affect public policy.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Chapter 6: The Relatively Recent Arrival of Economic Growth
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Explain the conditions that have allowed for modern economic growth in the last two centuries and analyze the influence of public policies in the long-run economic growth...
Digital History
Digital History: The Military Industrial Complex
Beginning with George Washington, presidents have used their farewell address to look back on their experience in office and to offer the public practical advice. In his farewell address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower said that a high...