Resource for Public Policy Teaching: UT's "American Politics" Site

The University of Texas at Austin's American Politics site has a wealth of charts and graphs that illustrate key concepts useful for teaching a public policy course, such as Money Spent on Lobbying of Congress by Industry (2000) and Congress Reelection Rates 1966-2004. The resources are organized into 12 categories (plus a separate site for Texas politics, natch), and each category has a glossary of terms.

Watch Those Page Counts in Lecture Notes!

So I'm clacking away on my lecture notes for class and just writing and writing and writing and the page count just isn't going up; I target five pages for an hour and 15-minute lecture, and I've still got just two pages.

I do a Print Preview in Word to see why my seemingly bulbous lecture is so slim and it reports I'm at four pages. That many, and I haven't even covered one of the two chapters I want to talk about.

I switch back to the standard view, and the page count is now miraculously correct. Word must have been so overwhelmed by my genius prose that it got distracted.