Contact:
Kati Elliott or Christine Allman 410-975-9638 kati@kehcomm.com or christine@kehcomm.com 9/11 Survivors and Families Honor the Fallen with the Country’s First Comprehensive Curriculum The Sept. 11th Education Trust and SocialStudiesSchool Service come together to help students learn from the terrorist attacks Culver City, CA – August 31, 2009– The Sept. 11th Education Trust, a nonprofit organization representing survivors and families, and Social Studies School Service, a leading provider of materials for schools, have created the first comprehensive curriculum for students. Teachers, parents and elected officials across the country recognize the need to fold the events of 9/11 into classroom instruction. Now they have the tool with which to do so. “Our goal is to help students remember the human dimension of these events,” said Anthony Gardner, Founder and Director of The September 11th Education Trust and brother of 9/11 victim Harvey Joseph Gardner III. “With this curriculum, it is now possible for students to understand the history of the 9/11 attacks as they honor and remember the victims and survivors.” Drawing upon the educational expertise of Social Studies School Service and the Taft Institute for Government at QueensCollege, The Sept. 11th Education Program: A National Interdisciplinary Curriculum is a multimedia curriculum that can be used as independent lessons or as a yearlong course of study. It provides seven curriculum units filled with inquiry-based interactive activities tied to national standards and a multitude of primary sources, including 70 first-person interviews with survivors, victim’s family members such as Beverly Eckert, and politicians such as Rudy Giuliani, Hillary Clinton, and others. The seven units for students in grades 6–12 include:# # #
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