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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.
Mailing List
If you are a teacher and you want to stay up on all the latest news from
Justice Learning, you can sign up here:
Justice Learning Mailing List.
The Justice Learning mailing list is a low-volume, infrequent list. We only
mail to it when there is an item of particular interest related to the
JusticeLearning.org website and its initiatives. If you are interested
in more regular news about Justice Talking, join the
Justice Talking mailing list.
Contact
Contact Justice Learning at: jl_info@justicelearning.org or call 210-545-7219.
Partners
The New York Times Learning Network
Provide
feedback to the New York Times Learning Network.
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
Provide feedback to Justice Talking by emailing jt_info@justicetalking.org or
calling 215-573-8919.
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.
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