The Albert Shanker Institute and Freedom House recently unveiled Democracy Web, a new site designed to fill a need in America's schools for educational material that not only describes the U.S. experience with democracy, but also compares it with that of every country in the world, including those where citizens lack a vote and a voice. "Democracy's survival depends upon our transmitting to each new generation the political vision of liberty and equality that unites us as Americans," says AFT president Randi Weingarten, who also is president of the Shanker Institute. Democracy Web is composed of two sections: an interactive, global Map of Freedom, and an online study guide designed to assist secondary school and college-level educators as they prepare lesson plans. [Read more.]