Thank you for visiting Americans All®, the education Web site of the People of America Foundation.

The People of America Foundation aims to keep students in school and to teach them how to become responsible citizens and productive employees in a democratic society. It will accomplish these goals by offering curriculum resources in a variety of perspectives and mediums in order to make academic instruction relevant to students’ lives and the interdependent world around them. The Foundation will provide staff development resources and inclusive, state-specific data that can be used to broaden the base from which history and civics are taught at the elementary, middle and secondary school levels. All of this data exists, but much of it is neither universally assembled nor universally available.

The program’s instructional approach will enhance students’ appreciation of America’s common heritage of democracy and of the social, economic and cultural value created by the nation’s diversity. In addition, generic, thematic lesson units and individual lesson plans will help teachers meet the requirements of new standards-based instructional guidelines.

The Foundation already owns the Americans All® National Education Program, supplemental curriculum materials on the history of the peopling of the United States—resource texts, teacher’s guides and manuals, music, posters and photographs (see http://www.americansall.com/aboutus/americansall.htm). Much of this content can be used to support the reading and mathematics testing elements of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation.

Next the Foundation will provide funding and technical support so state and local educators can create state-specific materials in print and electronic formats to incorporate the political and cultural contributions of all their citizens into their respective history and civics curricula. The content of the state-specific curriculum materials and electronic databases will fully support the state standards and curriculum frameworks that local school districts use. In addition, the newly created content will support the reading and mathematics testing elements of NCLB. To avoid duplication and provide consistency in generic content areas of U.S. history and civics, the Foundation will create a universal database to support the state-specific databases.

Through comprehensive Web sites, the Foundation will make available, at no cost, the curriculum materials from the Americans All® National Education Program and the newly created universal and state-specific databases to each of the nation’s more than 100,000 K–12 public and private schools. The Web sites will also include authorized links to additional reading and research resources. To ensure continued effectiveness, for 10 years the Foundation will ensure the Web sites are updated and expanded. In addition, the Foundation will support state-directed staff development programs and maintain a communications network that will include a biweekly newspaper, cable television programming and regional and national conferences.

Using a sophisticated business-education partnership model, the Foundation is seeking funding to implement this initiative. Sponsorship of the Americans All® program provides a means for organizations to support public and private education without commercializing the nation’s classrooms. Visit this site to discover what makes Americans All® such a unique and exciting program. If you are interested in being one of our sponsors, please click the Sponsors button at the top of the page.

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