Tax ID no. 480891418 Headquarters Virginia, United States Date founded September 1999 | Area served United States Founder Charles Koch Type of business Educational Charity | |
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Location 200 North Glebe Road
Arlington, Virginia 22203 Key people President
· David Bobb
Board of Directors
· Mark Humphrey
· Ryan Stowers
· Rob Testwuide
· Todd Zywicki Mission Educating young people about the Constitution Website www.billofrightsinstitute.org Similar Sidwell Friends School, Gilder Lehrman Institute o, Institute for Humane Studies, Constitution Project, Market‑Based Management Institute | ||
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The Bill of Rights Institute (BRI) is a nonprofit educational organization based in Arlington, Virginia that develops educational resources on American history and government, provides professional development opportunities to teachers, and runs student programs and scholarship contests. Since its founding in 1999, BRI says that its educational programs and resources have contributed to the education of approximately 4.3 million students regarding the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. It has been described as promoting a conservative view of the United States Constitution.
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Mission
BRI states that its mission is to "educate young people about the words and ideas of America's Founders, the liberties guaranteed in our Founding documents, and how our Founding principles continue to affect and shape a free society."
History
BRI was founded in September 1999 by billionaire industrialist and philanthropist Charles Koch and the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation. BRI's first president, Victoria Hughes, was a teacher who had also held a number of executive roles in other non-profit organizations. Hughes led the organization for a decade until her departure, after which Tony Woodlief filled her position as president. David Bobb, a former Hillsdale College professor and head of its Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship, became BRI's president in December 2013.
Koch has explained that he became concerned with education in the field of constitutional law after he saw that many high school teachers had inadequate resources to develop educational materials on the principles, institutions, and ideas upon which the United States was founded. Koch recognized that the educational system could benefit greatly from the types of supplemental services that the Bill of Rights Institute provides to educators.
Professional development
BRI runs educational programs for teachers around the country. BRI conducted 64 constitutional seminars in the 2010–2011 school year, often held at historic sites such as George Washington’s Mount Vernon or James Madison’s Montpelier. Seminars include instruction from a university professor and training by a BRI master teacher. BRI professors include BRI board member and Professor of Law at George Mason University Todd Zywicki; author and professor of public policy at Pepperdine University Dr. Gordon Lloyd; University of Texas School of Law and Professor Dr. H.W. Perry, Jr. BRI says it has reached over 22,000 teachers through professional development seminars.
BRI co-sponsors programs with Liberty Fund. and the Joe Foss Institute.
Online educational resources
Bill of Rights Institute provides online resources for teachers to use throughout the year linked with current and historical events. Resources include lessons and games for Constitution Day on September 17 and Bill of Rights Day on December 15.
In August 2014, Bill of Rights Institute launched Documents of Freedom, a free digital course on history, government, and economics. The course builds on excerpts from over 100 primary sources, including the Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers, presidential speeches, Supreme Court cases, and the Founding documents; and it offers an extensive set of original essays, focusing on principles such as federalism, separation of powers, limited government, checks and balances, republican government, consent of the governed, natural rights, rule of law, and due process, as well as virtues like self-governance, humility, integrity, justice, perseverance, respect, contribution, and responsibility.
Bill of Rights Institute also has a free digital storehouse of primary source based lesson plans called Voices of History, which contains the following curricula: Being An American, Being An American ELL, Founders and the Constitution, Heroes and Villains, Preserving the Bill of Rights, and Supreme Court Document Based Questions.
Student programs
In 2006, BRI began a high school essay contest which asks students to reflect on civic values. BRI reports that 80,000 students in all 50 states have participated in the contest since 2006. Winners are flown to Washington, D.C. for an awards weekend including education programs and historic site visits. Individuals who have taken part in the awards weekend include Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and Clarence Thomas, journalist John Stossel, journalist and political analyst Juan Williams, Judge Andrew Napolitano, and NBA player Antawn Jamison.
Other student programs run by BRI include the Constitutional Academy which provides students with a six-week study of the Constitution in Washington, D.C. In 2011 the Ford Motor Company Fund provided scholarships to 11 students to attend the Constitutional Academy.