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Facing Today helps educators connect history to current issues in our world today through the lens of universal themes including identity, membership, judgment, and participation.

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Red Scarf GirlTeaching Red Scarf Girl
This resource has been developed to accompany Ji-li Jiang's powerful memoir and help classrooms explore essential themes, including conformity, obedience, prejudice, and justice.

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Each day our friends, neighbors and family members make decisions, large and small, that help create positive change in our world.  See activists talk about what it means to be an upstander as part of Facing History and Ourselves' Choosing to Participate exhibition on display through February 2010 at the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland.

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Nadya and Meredith Promoting Global Understanding: Interview with Facing History Educators in Russia and America
Meredith Louria, a teacher and Margot Stern Strom Teaching Award recipient from Los Angeles, traveled to Russia to develop a Facing History unit with Nadya Strueva, an English teacher from Russia.

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martha minow Martha Minow
The Jeremiah Smith Jr. Professor of Law and newly appointed Dean of Harvard Law School, is the chair of the Facing History and Ourselves International Board of Scholars. Read more.