Teaching Kids 9/11 Story aired: Friday, September 08, 2006
The children's publishing company Scholastic announced that is yanking a website study guide produced as a classroom tie-in for the ABC special "The Path to 9/11." The pulled study guide included the suggestion that former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had a role in the 9/11 attacks.
Scholastic says they will create a new study guide that focuses on critical thinking and historical background and that is the way today's guests say history should be taught.
Today and Monday Here & Now is taking a look at how 9/11 is being taught in the classroom. Joining us today is Josh Otlin, a social studies teacher in Hudson, Mass., and Graseck, director of Choices for the 21st Century at Brown University in Rhode Island. Choices develops curriculum at schools dealing with a wide range of international issues.
Guests:
Josh Otlin, social studies teacher in Hudson, Mass.
Susan Graseck, director of Choices for the 21st Century at Brown University in Rhode Island
