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Friday, September 2, 2011

Educators Consider How To Teach September 11 To New Generation

USA Today (9/2, Toppo) reports that on the eve of the September 11 attacks, "educators at all levels are grappling with endless variations of this problem: How do you teach something that everybody knows about but few understand? And how do you give kids the benefit of 10 years of perspective when the results of that day -- two long-standing wars and increased security worldwide -- are still playing out?" Although "most adults have vivid memories of the events of 9/11, an estimated one in five Americans either have no memory of them or weren't born yet."

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