Connecting Classrooms to Congress is a collaboration of faculty in political scientists and education at IDEA, Columbia University, and the University of California Riverside and high schools in Ohio, Illinois, Florida, Washington, and California. The project developed and tested a web-based platform that enables high school students to study a pressing political issue and then discuss that issue with their Member of Congress in a Deliberative Town Hall. After completing the curriculum and participating in the DTH, students reflect on that event through analytical writing and continue the conversation within their classes and the broader community. The project is entering the fourth year of a grant funded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).   Learn more here about Connecting Classroom to Congress.