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Golf, a sport long associated with lazy summer Sundays, has become the source of headline-grabbing controversy in the last year. In June of 2022, LIV Golf – a breakaway league that lured many of golf’s biggest stars from the established PGA Tour using massive cash payouts from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund – livestreamed its […]

Are you a teacher? Click the button below for our related education resources. After AP exams, I try to connect my AP Human Geography students to future social studies classes with an emphasis on political science and human rights. The video The Crime That Fueled an Asian American Civil Rights Movement was a perfect combination […]

Are you a teacher? Click the button below for our related education resources. I am the only Social Studies instructor at Blue Ridge Juvenile Detention Center in Charlottesville, Va. My classes are not taught by subject. Instead, students travel with the “pod” in which they live. When I plan group lessons, I am always looking […]

Are you a teacher? Click the button below for our related education resources. As a teacher of U.S. History and Government and Politics courses at a private international school in suburban Long Island, N.Y., teaching “History” months can be quite a novelty to almost half of my students who are from various parts of the […]

Covid Deaths Left Orphans. The Stress of That Loss May Carry With It Lifelong Risks.Scientists have long observed the effects of adverse events in childhood on mental health, but a study published in 1998 uncovered a less well-known outcome: Those experiences can have lasting effects on physical health, too. The study identified 10 sources of […]

Are you a teacher? Click the button below for our related education resources. More than 70 people attended a preview screening of “How Saba Kept Singing” on April 11 at Retro Report’s newsroom in Midtown Manhattan. The film, directed by Sara Taksler, tells the story of David Wisnia, a Holocaust survivor who returns to the […]

Are you a teacher? Click the button below for our related education resources. This week, Starbucks workers around the United States took part in in a strike as part of their push to unionize. They’re among new groups of American workers pushing to form labor unions at restaurants, stores and warehouses as the economic pain […]

Are you a teacher? Click the button below for our related education resources. As a child in Mariupol, Ukraine, 11-year-old Vanda Vasil’eva hid from the invading German army during World War II, surviving extermination in the Holocaust by bullets, which took the lives of an estimated 1.5 million Ukrainian Jews. Decades later Vanda was again […]

Dr. Yohuru R. Williams, an expert on the civil rights and Black power movements and an education activist, opened the day with examples of how racism was intertwined with topics like property ownership, democracy and the prevention of violence in America. Dr. Williams is the founding director of the Racial Justice Initiative at the University […]

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