For America’s students, this last year has been a living history lesson in the making.
It’s common for the average teenager to wake up to a social media stream of dash-cam videos, hashtags and articlesdepicting police shootings and unrest in Ferguson, Mo., Baltimore, or even right here in Los Angeles.
Despite this full-on immersion, some teachers may find it difficult to broach this topic in the classroom. Sure, many of us who didn’t live through the civil rights movement of the 1960s learned about that era in school. But how do you teach about a movement that is still in progress?
Read more in the Los Angeles Times.