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School Civics-Government Teachers Click on this link to access the live Webcast! This Webcast will be shown in MPEG 4 format, you will need Quicktime 6 Player to view it. Click here to download Quicktime 6 Player for free. On Thursday October 3 & 10, 2002, the Kansas Bar Association, the Kansas Board of Education, the High Plains Regional Technology in Education Consortium, the Education Service Center at Greenbush, judges and teachers in Kansas will sponsor what we hope to be the first annual “United States Supreme Court Day”. The purpose of the day is to give judges in Kansas an opportunity to help educate Kansas students about the Supreme Court of the United States. We have chosen October 3rd because Thursday is a good day for courts and many schools to schedule programs, and because it is the last Thursday before the first Monday in October, the day the United States Supreme Court opens its annual term. The main part of the activity will be to present the 2002-2003 edition of the United States Supreme Court in Review. Developed by the Kansas Court of Appeals and the Kansas Bar Association, the Review presents two or three recent United States Supreme Court cases of interest to students, in a highly interactive style. The judges and lawyers presenting the program use the Socratic method to explore important issues of constitutional law. The students may play the parts of litigants, lawyers, judges and justices. The students are lead through the exercise by the judge/lawyer presenters and vote on the outcome of the cases. They are then told how the cases were actually decided. No preparation by the host school or students is necessary. The review has been presented over 200 times, all over the state, over the last seven years. It is now presented every year at Boys’ State and Girls’ State and has been broadcast the last two years over the State’s distance learning network, and last year over the Internet and by satellite. The program has been recognized as exemplary by the Kansas and American Bar Associations. For 2002, presentations of the review will be in person by the judges/lawyers where possible, and we are again broadcasting the program over the state’s distance learning system and the Internet. Schools wishing to express an interest in the program or receive information about it can do so by contacting: Hon. G. Joseph Pierron, Jr.
KS Judicial Center Room 265 301 SW 10th Ave Topeka, KS 66612-1507 785-296-5408 Fax: 785-296-7079 Email: pierronj@kscourts.org
Click on this link to access the live Webcast! This
Webcast will be shown in MPEG 4 format, you will need Quicktime 6 Player
to view it. Click
here to download Quicktime 6 Player for free.
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