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9/11: Ten Years Later |
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Upstate New York teens try to make sense of a day that changed America |
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Photo from iStockphoto.com |
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| Where were you when you found out about the events that occurred on Sept. 11, 2001? What do you remember, and how would you say it directly or indirectly impacted your life? Some students were too young to understand the impact of 9/11; some of you weren’t even born, yet conversations about it are all around you. CLICK TO READ STORIES |
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The Skin You’re In |
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Students explore the idea of race |
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Photo courtesy of the Race Project |
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| Why do we often judge people we don’t know by the way they look? Do genetic traits like skin color, hair texture or the shape of someone’s eyes tell us whether that person is good or smart, or talented at music or sports? Anthropologists, biologists and scholars tell us what race is and isn’t, and three students explain how people judge them based upon how they look. |
