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US government guide

Jim Riley

29th January 2009

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Do we as Politics teachers sometimes presume too much about the knowledge base of our students? Should we offer a mea culpa from time to time, pause, reflect and work through what we see as the basics? Probably.

I have stumbled across this excellent guide the operation of US government. Okay, it only covers the federal branches, but it should cover a lot of the ground that I hadn’t realised needed to be covered when doing a quick bit of revision today.

Here is the link.

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Jim Riley

Jim co-founded tutor2u alongside his twin brother Geoff! Jim is a well-known Business writer and presenter as well as being one of the UK's leading educational technology entrepreneurs.

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