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Daily News Lesson March 24 2025

How online misinformation is ‘supercharging’ conspiracy theories

Learn how best to discuss misinformation and how to challenge conspiratorial thinking

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Department of Education Staff Layoffs

Daily News Lesson March 21 2025

What's next for the Department of Education after Trump begins effort to eliminate it

Learn what the Department of Education does and what shutting it down would mean for the U.S.

FILE PHOTO: The Department of Education in Washington

Educator Voices March 21 2025

Educator Voice: How dismantling the Department of Education would affect teachers and students

"It will be like going back in time to the 1960s, when children with learning differences and challenging behavior were not entitled to an education at all," said a Nebraska teacher.

Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a residential building, in Deir Al-Balah

Daily News Lesson March 19 2025

Israel resumes bombing in Gaza after failed negotiations

Learn why a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel has fallen apart, and what Israel seeks to do next in the conflict

Labor union activists rally in support of federal workers during a protest on Capitol Hill, in Washington

Daily News Lesson March 17 2025

The history of civil service and the impact of Trump's slashing of the workforce

Learn about the Trump administration's approach to cutting federal jobs

The Department of Education in Washington

Daily News Lesson March 12 2025

Trump administration slashes Education Department staff

Learn about dramatic cuts to the Department of Education and budget negotiations in Congress

FILE PHOTO: A view of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington

Daily News Lesson March 10 2025

Trump foreign aid freeze blocked by Supreme Court

Discuss checks and balances and the reason the Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration's plan to stop payments to foreign aid contractors

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Trump delivers a speech to a joint session of Congress

Daily News Lesson March 07 2025

House censures Democratic Rep. Al Green for disrupting Trump’s speech

Learn about Green's protest and what it means to censure a lawmaker.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visits Washington, D.C.

Daily News Lesson March 03 2025

In clash with Zelenskyy, Trump deepens diplomatic rift over Russia's war in Ukraine

Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian delegation left without the economic deal that they came to the U.S to sign. Moscow responded with glee.

Daily News Lesson February 28 2025

Is political extremism partly caused by loneliness?

Discuss one theory about the rise of political extremism in the US

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