Welcome!

Join adult educators from across all six New England states who help adult learners exercise their voice and choice inside and outside of the classroom.

In the 2008 VERA campaign,

  • 17,634 adult learners participated across the six states.
  • 80% of adult learners eligible to vote voted.
  • Over 40% registered to vote and voted for the first time.
  • 8,300 adults participated even though they were not eligible to vote.

Read about the strategies and activities the adult education programs used.


Click here to sign up your class or program for VERA 2012!

 

The Voter Education, Registration, and Action campaign of 2012 is a non-partisan effort aimed at adult learners and program staff in the New England states. Its goal is to educate adult learners about voting and the topical electoral issues, and mobilize them to vote in the 2012 elections. VERA is sponsored by the New England Literacy Resource Center (NELRC) at World Education.

You can help with outreach to your colleagues. Refer them to our Web site to sign up. With your help, we can build a more participatory democracy.

The Change Agent: Democracy in Action

Democracy in ActionThe Change Agent's Democracy In Action issue is full of relevant and engaging articles and activities for the ABE/ESOL classroom. For example:

  • Do You Vote? Writings by adult learners, pp. 8-9
  • Let’s Get Out the Adult Education Vote! Strategies for teachers and programs, pp. 28-29
  • History of Voting. An engaging and informative  classroom activity, pp. 30-32
  • Is Voting a Right for Every Citizen?  A discussion of voting rights in the contemporary context, pp.  34-36
  • Voting: My Obligation to Past, Present, and Future. A Native American adult learner’s view on voting, p. 37
  • What Difference Does It make?  Rationale for voting, p. 51
  • Politicalese: Spotting Election Campaign Tactics. Includes a matching activity, pp. 52-53
  • Using the Media to Analyze Political News, p. 55
  • How Do We Elect the President. Civics 101 lesson,  pp. 58-60
  • Referendums: A Form of Direct Democracy. Another Civics 101 lesson, p. 63-64
  • What is a Caucus? Another Civics 101 lesson, p. 65
  • A Simulated Town Meeting: An Experience in Democracy. Instructions for a role play, pp. 72-73
  • Howard Zinn on Democracy Requires Action, Organization, and Risk, p. 66

 

To learn more about the NELRC, our workshops, or about submitting links and materials for this site, please contact Ben Bruno.