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Media publishes corrections and encourages dialogue with its readers.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-2 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <h2 class="field-content"><a href="/web/20150905133941/https://nie.washingtonpost.com/node/437">Civil War 150: War Ends, Political Pursuit Continues</a></h2> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-lesson1"> <div class="field-content"><p>President Lincoln is assassinated and a nation mourns just as its jubilation had begun. The end of the Civil War is not the end of political, economic and social battles. Reconstruction continues the debates over relationships between federal and state authority, master and slave, industrial and agrarian societies.</p> <p> </p></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-3 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <h2 class="field-content"><a href="/web/20150905133941/https://nie.washingtonpost.com/node/436">Make a Difference</a></h2> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-lesson1"> <div class="field-content"><p>The world knows about Malala’s passionate defense of the right of girls to an education, but she is not the only young adult who is making a difference. Read <em>The Washington Post </em>and other media to learn about young people around the globe who are addressing issues and finding solutions to problems. Brainstorm ways you can make a difference.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-4 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <h2 class="field-content"><a href="/web/20150905133941/https://nie.washingtonpost.com/node/435">Transportation — The Tie That Binds Our Nation</a></h2> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-lesson1"> <div class="field-content"><p>Using public transportation as the hub and Washington Post articles, opinion pieces, photography and informational graphics as the fuel, students engage in decision making and debate about gas taxes and infrastructure funding, engineering and design, economics and personal finance.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-5 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <h2 class="field-content"><a href="/web/20150905133941/https://nie.washingtonpost.com/node/433">The Editor</a></h2> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-lesson1"> <div class="field-content"><p>The editor directs content of a publication, influences the working environment, and develops staff members’ skills. In this guide we focus on lessons we can learn from the life of Ben Bradlee, the legendary editor of <em>The Washington Post</em>, and the job of scholastic editors.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-6 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <h2 class="field-content"><a href="/web/20150905133941/https://nie.washingtonpost.com/node/427">Executive Privilege — Real and Perceived</a></h2> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-lesson1"> <div class="field-content"><p>All U.S. presidents have exercised executive privilege. George Washington refused to give documents to legislators, Dwight Eisenhower named it and Richard Nixon invoked it when asked to provide White House documents and secret tapes. We focus on the Watergate Story, 40 years after the resignation of the president, to examine executive privilege, the balance of power, the duty of federal employees and the responsibility of the press to inform, investigate and watch those in power.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-7 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <h2 class="field-content"><a href="/web/20150905133941/https://nie.washingtonpost.com/node/421">Civil War 150: Grant Takes Command</a></h2> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-lesson1"> <div class="field-content"><p>As Grant sought to win the war, hundreds and thousands of lives would be sacrificed at places such as Cold Harbor, the Battle of the Crater and even in the D.C. area as Gen. Jubal Early approached the capital city. Using the work of <em>Post</em> staffers we examine how the Civil War’s casualties and those of today’s conflicts and wars can be understood in words and through informational graphics.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-8 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <h2 class="field-content"><a href="/web/20150905133941/https://nie.washingtonpost.com/node/415">Food — A Delicate Balance</a></h2> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-lesson1"> <div class="field-content"><p>The study of food is not limited to culinary arts, providing lessons in nutrition, making budgets and experiencing taste delights across cultures. Food is a key ingredient in migratory birds' survival balanced against man's desires, climate change and the commerical fishing industry. Snack food production is a business and billion-dollar economic force. Drought, climate change and consumption patterns influence the price of staples such as rice, corn and wheat as well as a cup of coffee.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-9 views-row-odd"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <h2 class="field-content"><a href="/web/20150905133941/https://nie.washingtonpost.com/node/411">Do You Have a Right to an Education?</a></h2> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-lesson1"> <div class="field-content"><p>We focus on three areas in which governments deal with the legal and ethical obligations to provide education of good quality, without discrimination or exclusion: the rights of girls, children with physical disabilities, and undocumented students. We explore the issue through <em>Washington Post</em> articles, a guest commentary and an editorial; case studies, an e-Replica search and Think Like a Reporter activity.</p></div> </div> </div> <div class="views-row views-row-10 views-row-even views-row-last"> <div class="views-field views-field-title"> <h2 class="field-content"><a href="/web/20150905133941/https://nie.washingtonpost.com/node/407">South Africa — Diverse People Unite</a></h2> </div> <div class="views-field views-field-field-lesson1"> <div class="field-content"><p class="MsoNormal">South Africa, rich in culture and the arts, presents a case study for independence, democracy and economic sanctions. 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