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People pay their respects at a memorial at Oxford High School, a day after a shooting that left four dead and eight injured, in Oxford
Daily News Lesson December 28 2021

Psychologist reveals the best way schools, students can prepare to respond to shootings
Hear from one expert on how to process gun violence in schools
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Daily News Lesson December 26 2021

Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace winner, dies at 90
Learn about the life and legacy of the South African icon and Nobel Peace Prize winner
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Lesson Plan December 23 2021

Lesson plan: Navigating life after wrongful conviction

Learn how many struggle after being exonerated for crimes they did not commit
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Daily News Lesson December 22 2021

How arrest records become ‘invisible handcuffs’ that keep people unemployed
Learn how arrest records can linger in public and limit future opportunities, even for those not convicted of crimes
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Lesson Plan December 22 2021

Lesson Plan: Some federal prisoners are under home confinement because of COVID, but what about your state?

Understand why federal and state governments can change lives and communities through resentencing, especially during crises like COVID
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Daily News Lesson December 21 2021

Why dozens of men spent most of their lives in prison after Louisiana reneged on plea deal
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) talks to reporters as he leaves the U.S. Capitol in Washington
Daily News Lesson December 20 2021

Manchin rejects Build Back Better bill over ‘inexcusable’ differences with White House
Learn why Biden and the Democrats have struggled to pass one of their most ambitious bills
Activists hold up flowers and signs stating "COUNT EVERY VOTE" across the street from where votes are still being counted, two days after the 2020 U.S. presidential election, in Philadelphia
Daily News Lesson December 19 2021

Exhaustive fact check finds little evidence of voter fraud, but 2020’s ‘Big Lie’ lives on
Find out why investigations haven't turned up any of the voter fraud alleged by some Republican activists
01/20/99 Black feminist Bell Hooks during interview for her new book. Said the feminist writer who a
Daily News Lesson December 17 2021

Share the life and legacy of bell hooks, author of 'Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism,' with your students
Understand the legacy of one of the nation's most original public intellectuals
Coronavirus variant sequencing at the University of Pennsylvania
Daily News Lesson December 16 2021

As the holiday season nears, concerns of a resurgent virus are growing
What should the country expect for the latest wave of COVID?
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