The Beeline - Education: K-12: WeB Pix for news, art, academics, fast facts, postcards by students, megalists, and more.WeB Pix Award Winner. death penalty Curricula for high school This resource http://bton.com/ed/k12/picks.html
Extractions: "Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater." Gail Godwin Suggest Listing Change Listing Key to Listings Report Listing Cave Spring Junior High Excellent example of an educational site serving and supporting this Roanoke, Virginia, middle school. Has extensive areas for news, art, academics, fast facts, postcards by students, megalists, and more.
ACLU Nebraska - Public Education Program often gets inquiries from both high school and college 300 copies of the ACLU studentsRights Guide Sheets on Reproductive Rights, death penalty, Freedom of http://www.aclunebraska.org/acluneb/public_ed.htm
Extractions: Public Education Program in 2001 In 2001, ACLU Nebraska conducted an aggressive public education campaign designed to highlight civil liberties issues in the court of public opinion. In addition to general presentations describing our mission and our work, some of the presentations were specifically tailored to meet the needs of the audience. The staff was interviewed by newspapers, radio talk shows and TV news shows throughout the year. In addition to being asked to comment on news events, we participated in radio call-in shows on both KKAR and KFAB in Omaha and KZUM FM in Lincoln. These extended format shows provided us with an hour or more of time to discuss ACLU issues and activities. We also were guests on TV interview shows on KETV in Omaha ( Kaleidoscope , hosted by Ben Gray) and on Nebraska ETV ( Consider This , hosted by Carol Schrader).
Back To School Week: High School Lesson Plan I Should high school students be able to get birth control information and devicesfrom their school clinics? who commit murder, be subject to the death penalty? http://www.ncsl.org/public/trust/lessonp1-h.htm
Extractions: Forgotten NCSLnet Password? Return to: Lesson PlansHigh School, Middle School, Elementary School At the conclusion of this Lesson, students should be able to: Background Preparation/Materials for the Teacher Contact your America's Legislators Back to School Week state legislative coordinator ( http://www.ncsl.org/public/trust/contacts_bsw.htm
American Civil Liberties Union ACLU issues such as immigrant rights, the death penalty, the three Celebration willfeature creative works from numerous high school students including the http://www.commondreams.org/pressreleases/Dec98/120198c.htm
Extractions: NewsCenter is a news service - providing breaking news and views for progressive-thinking Americans. The press releases posted here have been provided to NewsCenter by the one of the many progressive organizations we have selected to participate. If you would like more information about this press release, you should contact the organization directly. DECEMBER 1, 1998 10:51 AM ACLU Honors Rep. Dellums, Others At Bill of Rights Day Celebration SAN FRANCISCO - December 1 - The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California will honor Representative Ronald V. Dellums and other civil liberties champions at its annual Bill of Rights Day Celebration on Sunday, December 6, at the Sheraton Palace Hotel in San Francisco at 3 PM. The Earl Warren Civil Liberties Award, which honors champions in the fight for constitutional rights, will be presented to Representative Ronald V. Dellums. In 1998, Congressman Dellums retired from a remarkable career spanning three decades representing California's Eighth Congressional District (Oakland and Berkeley) in the House of Representatives.
Prison Activist Resource Center: Curriculum educational presentations are designed primarily for high school students to provide studentswill take on different perspectives and try to death penalty. http://www.prisonactivist.org/curriculum/
Extractions: If you can see this message you have disabled JavaScript. The webpage below may therefore be poorly formatted. We are currently trying to assess if using JavaScript on our pages (in the limited way we use it) is a problem for many of you who visit our site. Please enable JavaScript and email us at parc@prisonactivist.org to let us know if this was an inconvenience. Thanks! The PARC webcrew. ALERTS! Student Organizing Publications En Espanol ... Donate NOW AVAILABLE FOR DISTRIBUTION! PARC is proud to announce our four-part Prison Issues Curriculum. These educational presentations are designed primarily for high school students to provide information, stimulate discussion, and inspire action and community involvement. Each segment - comes as a packet with instructions for activities, a listing of resources for students, and extensive materials about each topic. The presentations are designed to be taught not only by teachers but educators and activists in all settings. For more information, contact:
Human Rights Education Library: Death Penalty Curricula For High School / HOME / SITE MAP / / SEARCH / Index Resource Centre Calendar Databases Library Links Library Teachers Title death penalty Curricula for high school Teacher Edition Author(s) Michigan State University Communication Technology Laboratory/death http://erc.hrea.org/Library/teachers/msu00.html
Extractions: Description This is a web site dedicated to the death penalty. It addresses history of the death penalty, arguments for and against, court cases on the death penalty and additional resources. The site includes two sample units plans for teachers. Each of the units involves an extensive amount of group work, simulations, persuasive and individual essay writing, and class participation. The units have been designed with the current NCSS (National Council for the Social Studies) Standards in mind. They are comprehensive two-week units. The curriculum encourages on-line student involvement in activities that closely resemble the experiences of ordinary citizens encountering this issue. The simulations are designed so students can actively participate in democratic decision-making. There is also a separate student site.
As New Lawyers, They'll Challenge Death Penalty The pair have already worked on the defense of high profile death penalty cases whilestudents at the Law school; and together, they've logged in nearly 1,600 http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol21/vol21_iss27/record2127.24.html
Extractions: Photograph : Patrick Goodman. Photo Credit: Eileen Barroso. Julia Tarver and Patrick Goodman are two Law students who know exactly what they want to do after they graduate today: eliminate the death penalty in the United States. The pair have already worked on the defense of high profile death penalty cases while students at the Law School; and together, they've logged in nearly 1,600 hours of death penalty pro bono work in the last two years. While their hours are impressive, the pair represent just two examples of the many extraordinary public service efforts of today's law graduates. In 1993, Columbia became the first leading law school to create a mandatory pro bono program, which requires that all students perform a minimum of 40 hours of public service work in order to graduate. Today's graduating class represents the first class to be subject to the requirement. About 60 percent of the students, Tarver and Goodman included, chose to go well beyond the required 40 hours to fulfill their commitment. Goodman, president of the Law School's Capital Punishment Coalition, put in a total of 1,150 hours working for the Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center in New Orleans, under the direction of death penalty defense attorney Clive Stafford Smith, Law '84. One particular case Goodman work on involved the defense of Nick Ingram, a British citizen who was executed in Georgia last year.
Death Penalty Information Center Walls, Thurgood Marshall Academy, Eastern high school, Maya Angelou Public Charterschool, and Luke to interact with death penalty experts representing http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/Summit.html
Law Related Education Resources - CT Judicial Law Libraries CRFC has conducted lawrelated education programs for elementary and secondary studentsand their death penalty Curricula for high school, TEACHER EDITION. http://www.jud.state.ct.us/LawLib/education.htm
Extractions: "The Center specializes in civic/citizenship education, law-related education, and international educational exchange programs for developing democracies. Programs focus on the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights; American political traditions and institutions at the federal, state, and local levels; constitutionalism; civic participation; and the rights and responsibilities of citizens." The Civic Mind
JHU ACLU - Main Page On Saturday February 22nd, high school, undergraduate, and graduate will gather atHoward Law school for a on different aspects of the death penalty system in http://www.jhu.edu/~aclu/registration.html
ACLU Press Release 04-15-02 ACLU Announces 2002 Youth a student at Mechanicsburg high school in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, started aschool chapter of the as racial profiling and the death penalty. http://archive.aclu.org/news/2002/n041502a.html
Extractions: Monday, April 15, 2002 NEW YORK The American Civil Liberties Union today announced the names of nine high school seniors selected to receive $4,000 college scholarships in recognition of their activist work in civil liberties. "I am inspired and impressed by the courage and commitment of our scholarship winners," said Nadine Strossen, President of the National ACLU. "It is a comfort to know that the next generation of civil libertarians is so promising." The ACLUs Youth Activist Scholarship Award was created in 2000 to recognize the efforts of graduating high school seniors who have demonstrated a strong commitment to civil liberties. The award, which is given annually, was made possible by a generous grant from an anonymous donor. Scholarship candidates are nominated by their local ACLU affiliates. Each of the ACLUs 53 affiliates is allowed to nominate one student for the award; the nominations are then presented to the ACLUs national scholarship selection board, which selects the years winners.
Extractions: A Lesson Before Dying UNIT OVERVIEW Teacher Interview : A Lesson Before Dying Click A Lesson Before Dying "addresses the basic predicament of what it is to be a human being, striving for dignity in a universe that often denies it." Therefore, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Capital Punishment, and the Death Penalty are topics used to enhance the students reading of Ernest Gaines's novel A Lesson Before Dying . The students will grapple with Human Rights issues, the workings of the justice system, and analyze the death penalty cases. The topics for discussion are designed to assist the student's ability to critique a literary work, and draw parables between the death row case of Jefferson (the fictional character) and Abu Qadir Al-Amin (an ex-death row inmate). The listening preparation aided the students with comparing Jefferson's death-row sentencing with Mr. Al-Amin's death-row case. Hence, by comparing the two death row cases, the students were better prepared for developing and posing interview questions for Mr. Al-Amin, the guest speaker. The Listening and Speaking Standards are essential for developing the student's ability to engage in meaningful dialogue.
Truman Capote/In Cold Blood and examine the controversial issue, the death penalty, an underlying theme How canstudents use the electronic features in the high school library to http://204.171.50.133/vhs/capotelesson1.htm
Extractions: A Study of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and the Death Penalty You have recently completed the novel, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. You are now going to investigate further into the author, the novel, and the impact of the novel upon American literature and society. You will also explore and examine the controversial issue, the death penalty, an underlying theme of the novel. How can students use the electronic features in the high school library to locate and access information and materials appropriate to the topic? How are computer files transferred between different programs and saved for later use?
Teens Ponder Malvo's Possible Fate (washingtonpost.com) mandate any focus on the death penalty, high school teachers across is especiallyappropriate in a school year that George Ryan's order emptying death row in http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30260-2003Jan22.html
LEXIS-NEXIS® Academic Universe-Document the Humanities, said nearly 200 students from across Shawna Riley of Hobbs high Schoollearned that in public, that turned opinion against the death penalty. http://nationalhistoryday.org/08_others/08_coordinators/lexisnexis/nm4.htm
Extractions: Iris Grubbs, Coral Bernal and Amber Martinez from the Taos Day School showed pride in their heritage with their entry. For 68 years, they reported, the Taos Pueblo had pursued the return of Great Blue Lake, sacred to the tribe as a place of meditation and prayer. Bernal's grandfather was among the tribal leaders who finally persuaded Congress and President Richard Nixon to return the lake in 1971. "Now it belongs to Taos Pueblo, and only our people are allowed to go there," Iris said as she explained the trio's display.
Edward Little High School's Library-Media Center Website entries and more than 10,000 crosslinks may be useful for some high school students. ACLUDeath penalty Pages In this site the American Civil Liberties Union http://w3.auburnschl.edu/ELHS/Library/currentissues.html
Democracy NOW! high school student Tristan Kading was forced to apologize to his entire school fordaring FOR MANSLAUGHTER IN RUBY RIDGE, THE death penalty PHASE IN http://www.webactive.com/pacifica/demnow/dn20010606.html
Extractions: [listen to the entire program at 14.4] [click to hear any story] NEWS HEADLINES Story: CITY ATTORNEY JAMES HAHN IS ELECTED MAYOR OF LOS ANGELES AFTER A CAMPAIGN MARKED BY A RACIALLY CHARGED POLITICAL AD In Los Angeles yesterday, long-time City Attorney James Hahn was elected mayor of the nation's second largest city, defeating former Assembly speaker and labor organizer Antonio Villaraigosa. Villaraigosa was seeking to become the city's first Latino mayor in 130 years, in a state where the Latino population is rapidly approaching 50%. The campaign was marked by charges that Hahn appealed to anti-Latino bias by running ads that juxtaposed a cocaine-filled crack pipe against a grainy image of Villaraigosa. Villaraigosa conceded shortly after midnight last night, saying "I love this city." Governor Gray Davis said that Villaraigosa, who built a broad multi-ethnic coalition of labor and community organizations, had "lit a spark that will not be extinguished." Guest: Story: HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT FORCED TO APOLOGIZE TO HIS SCHOOL AFTER PROTESTING A MANDATORY STUDENT ASSEMBLY FOR MCDONALD'S Last week at Stonington High School in Connecticut, school officials held a mandatory assembly where students thought they would hear a presentation about improving their chances of getting a summer job. What they heard instead was a recruitment pitch from local McDonald's representatives.
Editorial - Capital Punishment For Youth Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, there there were 67 juvenilearrests on death row. On December 1, 1997, a high school freshman, Michael http://www.m-a-h.net/inkdroppings/cb-punishment.htm
Extractions: by Chris B. How can murder be taken seriously, if the penalty isn't equally as serious? A crime, after all, is only as severe as the punishment that follows it. As Edward Koch once said: "It is by exacting the highest penalty for the taking of human life, that we affirm the highest value of human life." Our society needs to reconsider the death penalty as the standard punishment for murder. To deter crime and make the death penalty more effective we should not condone murders that children between 11-17 commit. Executions of juveniles began in 1642 with Thomas Granger, Plymouth Colony, MA. In the 350 years since that time, approximately 346 persons have been executed for juvenile crimes. The current age of juvenile offenders on death row range between nineteen and thirty nine. Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, there have only been 9 executions of inmates sentenced for juvenile crimes. Statistics obtained for the US Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, maintains that 13 percent of the death row population were under the age of nineteen, at the time of arrest. They also state that 2.2 percent of the population were seventeen or under at the time of arrest. As of December 31, 1997, there were 67 juvenile arrests on death row. Their time there, ranges between two weeks to over 19 years. All 67 were there for murder and their total victim count was 89. These are more than just statistics, these are children who kill.
Idaho Indymedia Center Timberline high school has activities planned as well Boise State University studentsare planning antiwar death penalty Moratorium Bill - Press Conf 12pm 2/11 http://idaho.indymedia.org/archives/display_by_date.php
Extractions: Third Critical Mass in Moscow: "No Blood for Oil" community bike rides. The next is planned for this Friday F28. On Friday February 21st, Critical Mass had its third No Blood for Oil Community Bike Ride in Moscow, Idaho. Despite the downpour early that afternoon, the cold temperatures and the ominous looking rain clouds in the sky, over 35 members of the community showed up for the ride. The crowd ranged from a small child riding in a bike trailer behind her mother, to a twelve year old who met the bike riders two weeks ago, to college students and on up, reflecting a large spectrum of age groups. A fourth ride is planned for this Friday, February 28th. Those interested should meet at East City Park in Moscow, Idaho at 4p.m.
Extractions: PHILADELPHIA - Students and activists from around the country marched in Philadelphia on Monday, November 6, to demand a new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal. The demonstration marked a growing identification among young people, particularly college students in the Northeast, with the campaign to stop the execution of Abu-Jamal and abolish the death penalty. For many among the 500 protesters, this was their first political demonstration. Abu-Jamal, a broadcast journalist and Black political activist, was convicted of the 1981 killing of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. The judge in that trial, Albert Sabo, was forced to issue a stay of execution on August 7 of this year after a worldwide campaign of pressure to stop Abu-Jamal's killing. Sabo has a reputation as a racist "hanging judge." He has sentenced twice as many people to death as any other judge in the country - 32 inmates, 27 of whom were Black. Despite compelling evidence from witnesses contradicting cop testimony in the earlier trial, Sabo rejected an appeal for a new trial. Abu-Jamal remains on death row as Sabo's decision is being appealed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
