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Students and others demonstrate during a protest outside the gates to Columbia University in New York

Daily News Lesson April 23 2025

Different views on Trump administration’s student activist crackdown

Examine the role of due process in incidents of students' visas being revoked

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Daily News Lesson May 06 2024

Brooks and Capehart on campus protests and Trump's vision for a 2nd term

Students: Share your thoughts on these matters

A man walks at an empty campus green at Georgetown University, closed weeks ago due to coronavirus, in Washington

Daily News Lesson November 02 2023

College campuses become focus of debate over what constitutes free speech

SummarySince the attack by Hamas and Israel’s ongoing response, there have been bitter debates on m…

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Educator Voices October 17 2023

Educator Voice Recap: Understanding books bans in your state

More than 70 educators from across the country joined NewsHour Classroom's Educator Voice onli…

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Daily News Lesson February 04 2022

News lessons for Feb. 4, 2022: Choose from 8 stories covering different subjects

Videos with discussion questions using the Five Ws and See, Think, Wonder that work for all students!

FILE PHOTO: Morning rises over the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington

Daily News Lesson May 03 2021

Student free speech makes it to the Supreme Court

Discuss whether public schools should be able to punish students for speech outside of the school

Lesson Plan January 10 2021

Insurrections in American History: 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries

To discuss after the mob violence at the Capitol on January 6th: How are race and class connected to insurrections in the history of our country?

Protest against racial inequality in Portland

Daily Video July 26 2020

What are federal agents doing in Portland?

Understand what is unusual about what's happening right now amid protests in Portland.

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Daily Video May 28 2020

Social media's role in monitoring misinformation

In this NewsHour EXTRA lesson, learn about Twitter's new initiative to fact check the tweets of influential figures such as President Trump and how it has stirred debate over the role of social media platforms as content moderators.

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Post December 02 2019

Educator Voice: Why private schools need more student journalists

I n order to fulfill school mission statements that extol leadership and student voice, high sch…

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