How schools are struggling to teach 9/11 to a generation that wasn’t alive to see it
- Over three summer days, educators gathered at the Flight 93 National Memorial in rural western Pennsylvania to address a complex challenge: how best to teach the September 11 attacks to a generation born long after 2001.
- Participants evaluated which details suit younger children and examined how victims' families wish the dead to be commemorated.
- Speaking to attendees during one panel, Gordon Felt, whose brother Edward Felt died aboard United Airlines Flight 93, stressed that silence poses the greatest danger to historical memory.
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- Over three summer days, educators gathered at the Flight 93 National Memorial in rural western Pennsylvania to address a complex challenge: how best to teach the September 11 attacks to a generation born long after 2001.
- Participants evaluated which details suit younger children and examined how victims' families wish the dead to be commemorated.
- Speaking to attendees during one panel, Gordon Felt, whose brother Edward Felt died aboard United Airlines Flight 93, stressed that silence poses the greatest danger to historical memory.
Sources: The Independent