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The Center for American Progress and Foreign Policy magazine teamed up to ask over 100 of America's most esteemed terrorism and national security experts for their assessment. This survey seeks for the first time to mine the highest echelons of the U.S. national security establishment across the ideological spectrum for their insights on the war on terrorism.

Developed over three years and completed in time for the 10th anniversary of the attacks, the curriculum is called "Learning from the Challenges of Our Times: Global Security, Terrorism and 9/11 in the Classroom." The material includes lesson plans on teaching the events of that day itself, but also delves into topics ranging from the "Impact of Hateful Words," for elementary students to "What is Terrorism?" in middle school and "Reaction to and from the Muslim and Arab Communities" for high school students. Also included are lessons on "acts of kindness" that occurred on 9/11, and ideas for students to help their town, community and the world.

A Global Teen Survey In the weeks following the 9/11 attack, America decided they must end terrorism so no further attacks would take place. This survey was designed so we could see how students from all over the world felt about this issue.

As the Bush White House weighs its options, what are the lessons from America's first "War on Terrorism" in the 1980s? Includes interviews, a timeline, video, and the evolution of Islamic terrorism.

"The bad versus good guys narrative reflects certain aspects of the U.S. government's approach to counterterrorism that are both counterproductive and deeply troubling. First, the term is symptomatic of the attitude that Americans should not ask, or seek to understand, the motivations of those who wish to attack us. To be sure, some politicians throw out facile statements positing reasons for terrorists' actions. In 2001, former president George W. Bush famously proclaimed, "they hate our freedoms." Earlier this year, during a radio talk show, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee suggested that Islam is inherently violent. Such two-dimensional explanations, however, do not count as serious efforts to understand the enemy. They are simply another way of saying "bad guys.""

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This six minute video excerpt from "Target America" comes at the end of the documentary, and just after the last terrorist attack during the Reagan administration is cited-the bombing of Pan Am Flight #103 on Dec. 21, 1988. This excerpt begins with the seeming policy shift by the Reagan White House in the war against terrorism. And it ends with the thoughts of key policymakers who had participated in the battles against terrorists during the 1980s, and the lessons they learned.

Students in New Jersey, a state that lost about 700 residents in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, can soon get classroom lessons on the event - from the history of terrorism to the heroics of regular people. The curriculum, with 56 lessons for kindergarten through high school, will be available to public and private schools in New Jersey or elsewhere. Schools in France and Missouri have expressed interest, organizers say.

Global Security, Terrorism, and 9/11 in the Classroom A New Curricular Initiative for Students in Grades K-12

""The stock phrase employed by western mainstream media that the bomb struck a 'stronghold of the militant Hezbollah group,' to quote the Washington Post, belies the fact that the area is dense and residential, and that the victims were civilians. This is akin to describing the September 11th attacks in Manhattan as striking 'a stronghold of American bankers.' It may be true symbolically, and also by crude motive of the bombers. But who are the victims and why were they targeted? They were civilians, overwhelmingly from the Shia sect, which make up Hezbollah's base of support in Lebanon. Curiously, despite the fact that civilians were indiscriminately targeted, U.S. mainstream media did not refer to the bombing as a 'terrorist attack.'"

This 5:00 video clip from "Looking for Answers" is from that part of the program dealing with the rise of militant Islam in Egypt. And it features Ayman al-Zawahiri, the young medical student who helped establish the radical Egyptian Islamic Jihad in the 1970s; he is now one of Osama bin Laden's top aides and on the FBI's most wanted terrorist list for the September 11th attacks. This video excerpt shows al-Zawahiri in the early 1980s ferociously condemning torture and other human rights violations by the Egyptian government - from the jail cell he is sharing with dozens of other Egyptian militant

Use the treatment of citizens of Japanese and German ancestry during World War II--looking specifically at media portrayals of these groups and internment camps--as historical examples of ethnic conflict during times of trial; explore the problems inherent in assigning blame to populations or nations of people. Students will also look at contemporary examples of ethnic conflict, discrimination, and stereotyping at home and abroad.

In an effort to prevent abuse of powers by the United States government, the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution. Over time, various exceptions have been made to these rights with the belief that such exceptions were in the public interest. During times of war especially, the nation has struggled to maintain a reasonable balance between civil liberties and national security.