Education Sep 10 Column: I was there on 9/11. Now it’s a history lesson that I teach Students in my classes remembered September 11 as high-schoolers; then as middle-schoolers; as grade-schoolers; then, only through their parents’ stories. Ten years later, the experience was already a generation removed. By Annie Thoms
Poetry Sep 09 What it was like to watch the 9/11 attacks from your classroom window On Sept. 11, 2001, Annie Thoms was 25 and just starting her second year teaching English at Stuyvesant High School, which is located just four blocks from Ground Zero. In the months that followed, she worked with her students to… By Mary Jo Brooks