[Mb-civic] The Nation Classroom Program

[Barbara Siomos]

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From: The Nation Magazine
Sent: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:28:33 -0800
To: barbarasiomos38 at msn.com
Subject: The Nation Classroom Program

Dear EmailNation Subscriber,

With continuing turmoil abroad and the frightening sight of an
Administration intent on ignoring the global scientific consensus on
issues like global warming and even evolution, teachers are looking
for relevant curriculum materials not censored by political pressure
groups. We're hoping that, with your assistance, The Nation Classroom
can begin to help fill this void. http://lists.thenation.com/t?ctl=2270:56B75

The Nation Classroom offers a unique alternative for college and high
school educators looking to encourage a healthy diversity of opinion
while instilling in students the confidence to express themselves
freely. The newly designed program includes two features that are both
free to educators: a weekly teaching guide published 24 weeks annually
during the fall and spring semesters, and a weekly educators email
newsletter, which announces each new guide and highlights new articles
and stories and projects of special interest to students and teachers.

The Nation Classroom also offers discounted education rates for bulk
magazine subscriptions, individual student subscriptions, full digital
access, and we'll soon be offering pre-planned learning packs.
http://lists.thenation.com/t?ctl=2270:56B75

The Nation's first six teaching guides for the new semester are now
posted. At the site, teachers can download the guides and sign up for
our educator newsletter. Both are free of charge.

The weekly guides include:

* Student Pages with reading, vocabulary, research and writing
lessons. * Teacher Pages with answers, suggestions and additional
activities. * Archive Sections featuring historical resources. *
COMING SOON: History Packs with primary source material back to 1865,
including lessons on The Montgomery Bus Boycott; The Scopes Trial;
Post Civil-War Reconstruction, Vietnam, The Brown Decision, The
Scottsboro Case, Watergate and more to come.

The Nation Classroom was created as a supplement to existing--and
often sanitized--curriculum materials that are becoming even more
biased under pressure from the Right. The program provides balance to
mainstream sources of news and commentary widely available to students
like Time, Newsweek, US News & World Report and the New York Times. As
I don't need to tell you, there's never been a more important time to
introduce young people to The Nation.

Here's how you can help. First, if you're a high-school teacher,
college professor or academic administrator, visit
www.thenationclassroom.com. Check out the free teaching guide and sign
up for the free educator newsletter. If you like what you see, sign up
for bulk copies or assign The Nation and direct students to the
sharply discounted education rates. If you're a student, give this
letter to an educator or two or ten.

Otherwise, please forward this note to anyone who you think might help
spread the word. Since its inception more than 350 classrooms
representing nearly 10,000 students nationwide have used The Nation
Classroom. With your help, we can dramatically increase that number.

Many thanks for your help.

Best Regards, Peter Rothberg, The Nation

P.S. Please also visit http://lists.thenation.com/t?ctl=2271:56B75 to read new Nation
online pieces, to view news-wire links updated twice each day, for
info on nationwide activist campaigns, Nation History offerings, and
special weekly selections from The Nation magazine! --

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