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OPINION: How best do we teach kids about Holocaust horrors? Show them what it was like

The Hechinger Report

Interactive digital and virtual experiences allow students to make choices about materials and people, something the teachers said rarely happens in a traditional unit of study. S tudents revealed that they were eager to spend more time with the experience. This is critically important to learning.

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Challenging Anti-History Education Laws: Teachers Receive 14,000 Books on African Americans During WWII

Zinn Education Project

I had always heard the traditional narrative of how the home front came together to support the war effort, but the stories told in the book showed me the myriad ways this was not true for African Americans. History class I teach a lesson about the African American experience in WWII using primary sources.