For several years there has been an Advanced Placement Exam in comparative politics, though it is only slowly gaining traction and teachers at the high school level. To that end, one teacher, Ken Wedding, has been instrumental in bringing teachers together and providing information. For any students who are interested in comparative politics, his new blog is worth checking out:
http://compgovpol.blogspot.com/
His discussions focus both on the substance of teaching comparative politics, as well as the challenges of teaching at the high school level (where, for example, textbooks might go out of date years before they are up for renewal). It's worth a peruse. The blog also links over to those del.icio.us sites where we archive material related to the Essentials of Comparative Politics texts written by myself, Professor Fields and Professor Share:
http://del.icio.us/medzamor
Any student who has taken PG 250 from me recently or looked at the web resources linked to this site knows that I'm a huge fan of del.icio.us, and I hope that more students embrace it as a way to organize information.
Whew. That's a lot of hyperlinks.
