Democratic Knowledge Project

The Democratic Knowledge Project (DKP) is an initiative of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The DKP supports education for participation in healthy constitutional democracy through co-creating, testing, and sharing high quality curriculum and curricular development resources, professional development workshops, and assessment tools and resources. Our vision is that a supermajority of the population will believe democracy is essential and feel confident in having the knowledge, skills, and dispositions they need to be informed and capable members of public life. We believe the place to start is in schools. We provide high quality resources for educators and students to support the development of authentic, informed, and skilled civic participants. Our resources align with the Educating for American Democracy roadmap, as well as the MA standards for the 2018 History and Social Science Framework and MA legislation requiring student-led civics projects. The MA Department of El...