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From July 7-10, 2008, the Yad Vashem International School for Holocaust Studies held its 6th International Conference on Holocaust Education with the focus on Teaching the Shoah, Fighting Racism and Prejudice.

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Fourteen-year-old New Haven Academy musician Taylor Goodwin brought the Board of Ed to its feet with a mournful and moving composition evoking the silent horror of Jews marching slowly to the gas chambers in the holocaust of World War Two.

"The violence in Northern Ireland may be nearing an end, but the long healing process is just beginning in a country whose history is defined by gripping violence and deep lines of religious segregation.

Students from Facing History's pioneering first class reflect on their former teacher, Margot Stern Strom, and the growth and lasting impact of her work 32 years later. "The experiment started 32 years ago, when an adventurous eighth-grade teacher decided to challenge herself and her students.

Robert Wood Mitchell Elementary School, Chicago Robert Wood, who teaches 8th grade at Mitchell Elementary School, is working with Facing History's Choices in Little Rock unit for the second year.

It was clear from the overwhelming public response to our Community Conversation Film as a Catalyst for Social Change, sponsored by The Allstate Foundation, that people are eager to discuss how filmmakers can make a difference.

Garfield High student Barbara Silva was awarded "Best Student of the Year" out of all students across the U.S. engaged on the 27 projects sponsored by The History Channel. Barbara credits her Facing History teacher, Claudia Rojas, for involving her in the project which explored local Los Angeles history through the experience of lowrider culture.

Facing History teacher Steven Schulz is preparing to participate in a three-day symposium for educators at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Schulz teaches a course in Ethical Decision-Making at Sanford High School in Sanford Maine, and has been funded by Facing History and Ourselves to attend this symposium in order to inform his teaching and his work in the classroom.

On March 12, 2008 Samantha Power spoke to over 450 community members at the Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center. Power is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and professor of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard University.