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Jose Navarro, a principal at Social Justice Humanitas Academy in San Fernando, California, moved audiences in Boston, Massachusetts, at last night’s New England Benefit Dinner. He spoke eloquently about his personal journey into education and how...
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Aung Khine M. captivated audiences in Boston, Massachusetts, last night at the New England Benefit Dinner with his harrowing account of his family's journey from Burma to the U.S. A student at Lowell High School, Aung spoke about his Facing History...
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BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS - It all started with a school assignment.“Interview someone of moral courage,” filmmaker Artemis Joukowsky III said during a recent conversation at the Facing History and Ourselves international headquarters in Brookline,...
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“Come take this giant leap with me…” – from "For Yom Ha'Shoah" by Sonia WeitzSometimes Skyping in class is a good thing.Kendra Larson teaches social studies at the Burr and Burton Academy in Manchester, Vermont. This winter Larson is teaching three...
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This month, Facing History and Ourselves will present $40,000 to educators around the world as part of its annual Margot Stern Strom Teaching Awards. Facing History board members David and Nina Fialkow founded the awards in 2006. “The crux of it for...
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This month, Facing History and Ourselves will present $40,000 to educators around the world as part of its annual Margot Stern Strom Teaching Awards. Facing History board members David and Nina Fialkow founded the awards in 2006. “The crux of it for...
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Brookline – It’s one thing to believe in the mission of the organization you work for. It’s quite another to actually crunch the data that measures the impact that organization has on a daily basis. Meet Dennis Barr, the man who asks “Why?” and “How...
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Brookline - It is truly astounding the amount of work that the Facing History and Ourselves staff – over 150 of them in 10 offices across the globe – manage to fit into 12 productive, interesting, dedicated months each year. Of course, the staff...
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Artist and Holocaust survivor Netty Vanderpol with three of her pieces at the opening reception for Every Stitch a Memory at Facing History in Brookline in October.Needham, Mass. – In some ways, Netty Vanderpol, 84, is only just beginning to find...
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Your typical high school junior wouldn’t be caught dead trying to talk her way into a freshman class.Emily Leventhal wasn’t your typical high school junior.In her eleventh grade year at Cambridge, Massachusetts’ Buckingham, Browne & Nichols (BB...
