"We the People…Project Citizen" is another civics education program that seeks to engage middle school students in their communities by giving instruction on how to participate effectively in a civil society (http://www.civiced.org/project_citizen.html). More specifically, Project Citizen engages students in public policy issues within their communities. Students not only learn about the political process, but also research problems in their neighborhoods and develop ideas about how to solve them. Started during the 1995-96 school year, Project Citizen has grown into a nationally recognized curriculum used in all 50 states and American Samoa, Guam and Washington, DC by approximately 3,800 teachers. Nearly 232,000 students have been taught using this curriculum.

A quasi-experimental evaluation was conducted with a total of 102 classrooms and 1,412 students. The classrooms were located in three different political units: Indiana (275 treatment students and 267 comparison students), Latvia (139 treatment students and 126 comparison students) and Lithuania (295 treatment students and 407 comparison students). A pre-test/post-test design was used, with students filling out the Civics Development Inventory, which contained questions on civic knowledge, skills and dispositions. The findings, which were consistent across the three units, suggested that Project Citizen was effective, independent of the country in which it was used. More specifically, the treatment group had significantly higher scores on civic knowledge, self-perceptions of civic skills, and propensity to participate in civic and political life. Curricular implementation and the students' perceived level of participation or involvement in the program was also related to the civic outcomes. Although the results were consistent across the sites, caution should still be taken in generalizing the findings to the entire United States since Indiana was the only state studied.