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.

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.

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

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.

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.

In this lesson, students experience various works of fine and performance art in the classroom and online as well as consider artists' and critics' definitions of art. They then create their own definitions and express them in the form of original works for an evening gallery opening.

It was ingenious. So much so that some listeners wished to be high school history teachers so they could "borrow" the analogy. Even though my first listen was is in a semi-awake state, I understood enough to be informed, entertained, and left wanting to hear it all again. What caught my ear and interest was an NPR interview with Marc Lynch, author of an article that explained world politics through the analogy of a rappers' feud. The clarity the analogy brought to the more complex issue of foreign policy and "rogue" nations amazed me. It truly was ingenious. Such analogies are products of what I call "thinking in the seams," thinking that merges ideas from different disciplines to generate something novel and beneficial. Researchers use varying terms for such thinking-cross-disciplinary thinking, multi-disciplinary thinking, and interdisciplinary thinking-and define it as the use of frameworks from one discipline as "points of departure for discovering or confirming similar structures and relations in other disciplines."1 It stitches together perspectives or modes of inquiry from two or more disciplines to explore ideas. It is thinking "in the seams." Creativity, innovation, and deepened understanding can result from interdisciplinary thinking. Despite these potential benefits, schools rarely cultivate the "mental dexterity" required for thinking in the seams.2

Welcome to Inquiry-based Learning. Start here in the "Explanation" section, which is all about the CONCEPT. Then go on to "Demonstration" and the following sections, where we move from CONCEPT TO CLASSROOM!

Welcome! The Inquiry Page is more than a website. It's a dynamic virtual community where inquiry-based education can be discussed, resources and experiences shared, and innovative approaches explored in a collaborative environment.

The essence of inquiry-based learning is that children participate in the planning, development and evaluation of projects and activities. Teachers can take many approaches to crafting an inquiry-based project, but Dr. Cornelia Brunner of the Center for Children and Technology breaks it into four main parts: Posing Real Questions, Finding Relevant Resources, Interpreting Information and Reporting Findings.

This article explains some of the key principles of inquiry-based learning. For step-by-step information on how to create an inquiry-based project, see the article called How to Create an Inquiry-Based Project.

A critique of narratives that try to illustrate the impact of the Iraq War on families at home.

Narratives that use the tag: terrorism

Narratives that use the tag: war

Ginsberg reading lines from "America" is sampled and put to a hip hop beat with some psychedelic paintings.

"Catcher" could almost serve as a guide to the city of a certain time, a city that has been lost forever, but still somehow exists: dark, enigmatic, grown up. Follow in Holden's footsteps by clicking on the Interactive Map of his experiences in New York City.

MOSCOW - Fifty years ago Saturday, U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down while flying a U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union, a dramatic episode of the Cold War that pushed the rival superpowers closer to confrontation. "In order to understand the world today, you must understand how we got here, and we got here through the Cold War," the pilot's 44-year-old son, Francis Gary Powers Jr., said Friday. "And then we have to understand how this period of time developed and expanded and how close we came to nuclear war.

A curriculum in a pdf file from Teaching Tolerance. Civil discourse is discourse that supports, rather than undermines, the societal good. It demands that democratic participants respect each other, even when that respect is hard to give or to earn.

In the third chapter from her series "Chaplain Turner's War," Moni Basu takes on tough challenges of narrative journalism: reporting events after the fact and portraying both the grave and the mundane aspects of military conflict.