Source: Politico Our students are avid consumers of politics and history. They always ask, though, how the Democratic donkey and the R...

Source: Women On 20s Who is on the 10 dollar bill? Who is on the 100? The 1,000? 10,000? For the record, it's Alexander Hamilton,...

Source: International Business Times (click for detail) The shutdown of the United States government began today . With no plan of act...

Source: ASIDE, 2012 Even though it’s an OMG, LOL and BFF world, it doesn’t mean that kids know the meaning of acronyms. Yet, because the...

Source: ASIDE The natural extension in our media literacy curriculum for the sixth grade is the Take Notice project. It builds on the ...

Arguably there are many news aggregators available today to use in the classroom, perhaps even too many, but selecting from those that have...

In many past and present homerooms, the traditional “Student of the Day” leads a brief talk about an interesting current event. These pres...

"Next!" Puck Magazine, 1904. Source: Wikipedia Thomas Nast Self-Portrait Magazines such as Puck and Harper’s Weekly estab...

The New York Times frequently features excellent graphics in its news analysis. Its explanations of the Fukushima plant disaster helped ed...

Weeklies such as Time , BusinessWeek , and The Economist all feature full-page infographics to encapsulate the main ideas behind their cove...