About Us

Justice Learning is an innovative, issue-based approach for engaging high school students in informed political discourse. The web site uses audio from the Justice Talking radio show and articles from The New York Times to teach students about reasoned debate and the often-conflicting values inherent in our democracy. The web site includes articles, editorials and oral debate from the nation's finest journalists and advocates. All of the material is supported by age-appropriate summaries and additional links. In addition, for each covered issue, the site includes curricular material from The New York Times Learning Network for high school teachers and detailed information about how each of the institutions of democracy (the courts, the Congress, the presidency, the press and the schools) affect the issue.

Much of the traditional civics curricula begin with an historical perspective and move forward. The lessons start from a point distant from students' lives. Justice Learning reverses traditional methods by starting with current issues that directly affect their lives. The curricula engage them early with a multimedia set of online materials and then relate it to the historical context that generated it. In doing so, the project incorporates into its methodology the new reality of where students turn for information and how they learn.

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Partners

The New York Times Learning Network

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The New York Times Learning Network is a free service from NYTimes.com created for teachers, parents and students in grades 3-12. The site, updated Monday through Friday throughout the year, uses the day's New York Times to help bring current events into the classroom. Teachers and parents are equipped with daily lesson plans and an extensive lesson plan archive, News Snapshot mini-lessons, product reviews and family movie guides to help students learn about current events and other subject areas. Students use vocabulary and geography "knowledge tools" to better understand the day's top stories, play online news quizzes and crossword puzzles, extend their vocabulary and test skills with Word of the Day and Test Prep Question of the Day, explore what happened On This Day in History, and participate in the news environment with features such as Ask a Reporter and Letters to the Editor.

NPR's Justice Talking

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NPR's Justice Talking is quickly becoming America's source for insight on the hot-button legal issues we all read about, think about and talk about every day. The weekly one-hour program is moderated by veteran NPR correspondent Margot Adler and features the nation's leading advocates facing off in down to earth, free wheeling debate. Taped before a live audience, each debate begins with a feature report that provides the human story behind the topic, prepared by a talented team of public radio correspondents. Margot Adler asks her own challenging questions and fields questions from the diverse and knowledgeable audience. Produced by the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, the program is distributed by NPR to stations nationwide and internationally via "NPR Worldwide" and Armed Forces Network in Europe. Justice Talking can also be heard on the NPR channel of Sirius Satellite radio.