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A Principal in Virginia Recalls the Impact of Facing History
Elizabeth Lodal believed that if she, the principal of McLean High School in Fairfax County, Virginia, taught an elective course about morality and the responsibility of citizenship it would send a powerful message. |
Profile | February 22, 2008 |
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A Teacher from Virginia takes the Facing History Journey
India Meissel
is one of the 2004 Esther Goldman Teacher Award winners for Excellence
in Holocaust Education. As part of her award, the Holocaust Commission
of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater, Virginia sponsored her
attendance at the Facing History and Ourselves Summer Institute in
Brookline, Massachusetts. |
Profile | February 22, 2008 |
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Abercrombie & Fitch Faces Lawsuit Over Muslim Headscarf Abercrombie & Fitch refused to hire Samantha Elauf because she wears a headscarf. Nineteen-year-old Elauf is a community college student from Tulsa, Oklahoma. She is Muslim, and covers her head for religious reasons. When Elauf applied for a position at a Tulsa Abercrombie Kids store in June of 2008, she was turned down, and later found out from a friend who works at the store that “the headscarf cost her the job.” The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed suit against Abercrombie on Elauf’s behalf. |
Facing Today | October 13, 2009 |
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An Interview with Matthew Shepard’s Mother In 1998, twenty-one year old Matthew Shepard was viciously murdered because he was gay. |
Facing Today | September 16, 2009 |
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Arizona Teacher Awarded Outstanding Educator
Tuscon, Arizona - Jessica
Issaharov, a Facing History teacher since 2001, was recently recognized
as the Outstanding Judaic Educator of the Year from the Jewish
Federation of Tucson, Arizona. The Federation honored Issaharov for her
work in teaching Holocaust studies and motivating students to make a
difference within their own communities. |
Profile | February 23, 2008 |
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Baltimore Sun: Students Delve Into History "We think about how we would react to these things, … how to think for ourselves rather than being part of a group." Antonio P. and his Facing History classmates at Sudbrook Magnet Middle School in Baltimore County recently spent two weeks immersed in the Facing History curriculum as part of a program for eighth graders. An article in the Baltimore Sun shares the students' experiences and reactions. |
News | January 5, 2011 |
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Bringing Holocaust Studies to South Carolina Teachers
Selden Smith has been on a journey to explore the lessons from the Holocaust and bring that scholarship to teachers in South Carolina for nearly two decades. But when he started his career as a history professor in 1960, the Holocaust as a subject of study didn't factor into his teaching. |
Profile | February 23, 2008 |
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Character Education in Harrisburg School District: A Partnership with Facing History and Ourselves
What happened to the nine African American students who integrated a high school in 1957 in Little Rock, Arkansas, and how the community reacted, has made a profound impact district-wide in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. |
Profile | August 27, 2008 |
| Choices in Little Rock | Unit | October 7, 2009 |
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Civil Rights Protesters Offered Pardon for 1963 Birmingham Arrests On May 2nd, 1963, over a thousand black children in Birmingham, Alabama took part in a nonviolent protest against racial segregation now known as the “Children’s Crusade.” The children skipped school that day and marched together, two-by-two, singing songs of freedom. The police confronted the children wielding clubs and fire houses, and set dogs on them. Hundreds of children were arrested, many taken to jail in school buses. Frank James recounts this story in his Facing Today |
August 13, 2009 |
