It’s not often that a Sunday spent vegging on football devolves (evolves?) into a Google search to parse the meaning of “déjà vu.” For the N.F.L., that’s not a good thing. Amid the Buffalo Bills’ drubbing of the New York Jets this weekend came an all too familiar sight. Just before halftime, Jets running back […]
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Physical Violence Has a Deep-Seated History in Congress
Viewers who were scanning cable news on Tuesday might have thought they’d stumbled onto a sort of bizarro coverage of professional wrestling. “I got elbowed in the back, and it kind of caught me off guard, ’cause it was a clean shot to the kidneys. And I turned back and…there was Kevin,” the tan-jacketed man, […]
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Teaching About Voting Issues and History with Videos, a Night for Educators
Educators attending an event hosted by Retro Report and Frontline last week learned how to use short documentary videos and accompanying resources to teach students about critical issues. The event, at Retro Report’s Midtown Manhattan newsroom, started off with a Q&A session with Muklian Muthukumar and Sonja Aibel from YVote and Brianna Cea from Generation […]
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Retro Report and N.Y.C. D.O.E.’s Social Studies Team Host a Professional Development Event
Teachers attending a daylong workshop this month hosted by Retro Report and the New York City Department of Education’s Social Studies team came away with new ways to engage students. The workshop introduced classroom resources for Hidden Voices, a curriculum collaboration with the Museum of the City of New York that spotlights stories from underrepresented […]
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Six Videos That Will Spark Classroom Discussion for Veterans Day
Retro Report has a selection of videos to help teachers commemorate Veterans Day (Nov. 11). Learn more about our resources below. Agent Orange: Last Chapter of the Vietnam War This 10-minute video explores the decision by the U.S. military to spray millions of acres of Vietnam with a toxic defoliant, and illustrates how that decision […]
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Families Speak Out Against an Experimental Theory
A new documentary by Insider and Type Investigations looks at parental alienation, an unproven theory pioneered in the 1980s by a psychiatrist, Dr. Richard Gardner, who argued that in some contentious divorces, mothers were inducing children to accuse their fathers of abuse in an attempt to win custody. This film explores how proponents of this […]
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Want Your Students to Become Better Writers? Open Up About Your Writing Process
If you are familiar with the television show “Friends,” (Rest in peace, Matthew Perry) you may remember the “Pivot!” couch scene. I’m often reminded of that moment when creating lesson plans because throughout the process, I have to remind myself to “pivot, pivot, PIVOT!” The process of writing and creating lesson plans is far from […]
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Cutting Through a Fog of Misinformation Online
In the days since the war between Israel and Hamas erupted, false information and misleading videos have flooded social media platforms, making it difficult for readers to sort fact from fiction. Footage said to depict a Hamas militant paragliding into Israel was in fact taken in June, during an incident in South Korea. A graphic video posted […]
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Technology vs. Talent, a Hollywood Sequel
Two big Hollywood unions – the Writers Guild of America, which went on strike in May, and the Screen Actors Guild, which walked out in July – have joined forces against the Alliance of Motion Pictures and Television Producers. The unions are seeking better pay and protections to make sure their members’ work won’t be […]
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Where Are They Now? Lost Works From the W.P.A. Era
Are you a teacher? Click the button below for our related education resources. Last month, an exhibition titled “Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s” opened at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. It includes four posters depicting America’s national parks that were designed during the Works Progress Administration, a […]