Dana Taylor
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So, how do teachers help students understand not just what happened, but also why it still matters?
Twenty-five years after the attacks, an entire generation is encountering September 11th as history rather than memory.
Educators are searching for ways to make one of the most defining moments in modern American history feel real to
Students who never lived through it.
Hello and welcome to USA Today's The Excerpt.
I'm Dana Taylor.
Today is Thursday, September tenth, twenty twenty six.
Those were students at Dexter Southfield at school outside Boston.
Peter Fulan is the head of the school and has worked in education for more than thirty years.
It's so good to have you here, Peter.
Peter, today students were born, as I said, years after the attacks on September eleventh.
Why is it important for them to learn about that day now?
What do students typically know about nine eleven before your lessons begin?
Have you found there are things they tend to misunderstand?
You've called the lessons part of our historical inheritance.
What did you mean by that?
And does that inheritance come with responsibility?
You've touched on this, but how do you
Focus on the stunning heroism of nine eleven and platforming that along with explaining the hatred and violence behind the attacks without overwhelming younger students.
And how do you grapple with not reducing the lesson to a one-note tragedy?
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