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Ten years after 9/11, California still has no curriculum devoted to the terrorist attacks
- 09-12-2011
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By Theresa Harrington/Contra Costa Times
The classroom was silent as spellbinding images of giant airplanes crashing into towering skyscrapers flashed across a screen. Students watched with open mouths as anguished people and ash-covered firefighters wandered through New York City streets as the twin towers crumbled. "Those are color pictures," teacher Kandi Lancaster told students gaping at the gritty, gray images. "They look black and white." The lesson -- which focused on the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and their effects on American society -- did not come out of a California textbook. Instead, it came from the staff at Walnut Creek Intermediate school, which created its own lesson plan five years ago to educate students about the worst terrorist attack in American history. Ten years after 9/11, the California Department of Education still hasn't updated its history and social studies curriculum to incorporate the attacks. (more...)
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