citizenship Programs
U.S. Army education programs offer something for everyone depending on your personal education needs. Choose a program category below based on your education goals. Categories range from resources such as career exploration and higher education to specific fields such as science and technology. To view all programs by audience, click here. To view all programs alphabetically, click here.
Career Related Experience in Science & Technology (CREST)
URL:www.usaeop.com/programs/CREST/index.htm
CREST provides summer and/or part time employment to students for appointment to civilian engineer or scientist positions in the Army Intern Program.
We The People: The Citizen and the Constitution
URL: www.civiced.org/index.php?page=home
As part of the Center for Civic Education, the primary goal of this program is to promote civic competence and responsibility among the nation's elementary and secondary students. What makes the program so successful is the design of its instructional program, including its innovative culminating activity. Since its origin in 1969, Center materials have been used in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as in the trust territories and many regions across the world.
You The People
URL: www.youthepeople.com
You The People is a school-based and community-based participatory, interactive civics and citizenship study program. The program seeks to promote an active citizenry: citizens who participate in our democracy, no matter what their political views, in a civil and skilled manner. This program, therefore, draws not on any one particular political philosophy or belief, but on the ideals of the U.S. Constitution and our history of civil democratic discourse.
Basic Skills Education Program
URL: www.hrc.army.mil/site/education/FAST.html
The Basic Skills Education Program provides Soldiers with job-related instruction to improve basic educational competencies necessary for job proficiency, skill qualification, advanced schooling and career progression. The Basic Skills program focuses on: reading and math skills that Soldiers need on the job; reclassification purposes; and preparation for lifelong learning.
Forum for Democracy
URL: www.forumfordemocracy.com
Forum for Democracy engages participants in debates on constitutional and contemporary issues. The program offers undergraduate credit for students 16 and older and graduate credit to instructors. Three manuals including “Chief Justice”, “Sovereign Citizen” and “Head of State” are integrated with an interactive Web site that allows students to upload videos of themselves participating in the program and service learning projects within their communities.
