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Eighth edition of the Street Law text now available!

Eighth edition of the Street Law text now available!

March 10, 2009 | Silver Spring, MD

The eighth edition of Street Law, Inc.’s flagship text, Street Law: A Course in Practical Law is now available. For the first time, Street Law will have a separate chapter on immigration law and policy, and new content has been added addressing the most current law-related public issues: terrorism, technology, and recent Supreme Court decisions. Through the use of case studies, cooperative learning activities, data analysis, political cartoons, and mock trials and moot courts, students learn to analyze, evaluate, and resolve disputes. 

"Street Law is not your typical textbook," said Lee Arbetman, Street Law’s acting executive director and co-author of the text.  "It's designed to engage students through real world examples, promote civic participation, and develop life skills, critical thinking and decision-making. Students today are faced with a law-saturated society. This helps them better understand the impact legal and civic issues have on their lives—whether or not they pursue a legal career."

Other new and improved features include the following:

  • Law Around the World feature in each unit that challenges young people to consider legal issues from a global perspective
  • Expanded Law and Democracy in Action feature helps students develop civic participation skills
  • Improved Law Where You Live feature asks students to explore variations in local and state laws where they live

The text also incorporates the popular elements of earlier editions and is rich with case studies, role-plays, small group exercises, and visual analysis activities. 

Street Law and Glencoe/McGraw-Hill also developed/updated several new ancillary materials to support this edition:

  • New! Unit-Based Presentation Slides containing visual images and guiding questions to help students analyze data, political cartoons and quotations.  The slides are for large group instruction and are fully editable, and are in the new in the interactive Teacher Manual CD-ROM.
  • New! Vocabulary PuzzleMaker and Vocabulary e-Flashcards are interactive on-line resources for students and teachers.
  • New! StudentWorks CD-ROM includes the complete student edition and student workbook in a convenient, easily portable format.  (The updated student workbook is also available in print.)
  • Updated Interactive Teacher’s Manual CD-ROM is a comprehensive resource with guides to activities, strategies, background content information, media recommendations, correlations to national standards in economics, civics and government, service learning activity projects, links to additional legal and policy information and the best all-around law-related sites on the Web, and complete support for each chapter
  • Updated ExamView® Assessment Suite CD-ROM helps teachers build and edit tests quickly and easily for a chapter or a unit 
  • Updated Online Learning Center taps into student motivation with expanded content, interactive self-check quizzes, web-based activities, chapter reviews, careers in the law, updated Supreme Court cases, full student edition and much more.

To learn more about Street Law: A Course in Practical Law and its ancillaries, including ordering information, please visit www.streetlaw.org/textbook or contact Glencoe/McGraw-Hill at 1.800.334.7344.

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Topic: Civic & Law-Related Education

Topic: Democracy/Human Rights

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