Classroom & Curricula

This week's selections in the Metropolitan Opera's nightly streaming schedule are particularly accessible to children, with fairy tales and mythical characters center stage!

While certainly not an easy read, this is an important one because of how it looks at the mental health and justice systems.

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Students can learn about the environment and conservation and celebrate Earth Week 2021 with these resources and educational opportunities.

This Women's History Month may feel like 2020 all over again. As the pandemic interrupted many plans to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment, the National Women's History Museum and National Women's History Alliance have extended their resources, events, and celebration into 2021.

The approach is especially effective now that so many students are working asynchronously, experts say. 

With science more prominent in the news, librarians are playing a greater role in science literacy and helping students learn how to flag biased and racist scientific research.

The Pulitzer Center is starting an education network around the 1619 Project, Teaching Tolerance changed its name, Sonja Cherry-Paul created an educator's guide to Carole Boston Weatherford’s Unspeakable and more in this edition of News Bites.

NewsLit Nation, NLP's national educator network, provides teachers with a platform to learn from each other, establish best practices, and help work news literacy into all subjects areas.

Statistics show the impact of learning loss during the pandemic, while experts offer suggestions for how best to restart in-person education.