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Lesson Plans for Current Issues

A Safe Place for Hate?: Exploring the Conflict between Free Speech and Social Responsibility on the Internet Freedom of Hate Speech?: Investigating Hate Group Propaganda and Free Speech on the Internet Internet Filter Infiltration: Exploring Internet Filters and Creating School Internet Policies Is the Internet Igniting Violence?: The Internet, the First Amendment, and the Massacre at Columbine High School The First (and Last) Words: Applying the First Amendment to Internet Issues

	A Question of Faith: Exploring Reactions to the Recent Supreme Court Ruling on Organized Prayer at School-Sponsored Events In Whom Do We Trust?: An Examination of the Separation of Church and State Is Evolution Just Monkey Business?: Assessing the Debate Surrounding the Teaching of Evolution in Science Classrooms Mixed Blessings: Exploring the Separation of Church and State in Patriotic Poetry Religious Convictions: Exploring Current Debates Involving the Separation of Church and State More Lesson Plans on Religion in Schools
	Children's Accountability for Their Crimes: A Round-Table Discussion for the Social Studies or Language Arts Classroom Dead "Man" Walking: Considering the Fate of Juvenile Offenders in the Face of Capital Punishment Innocents Lost: Examining the Fatal Shooting of a Michigan Child by a Classmate Taking Age into Account: Exploring Juvenile Accountability for Violent Crimes Teens on Trial: Exploring the Issue of Juvenile Justice More Lesson Plans on Juvenile Justice
	A Test Case for Individual Rights: Assessing Whether Student Drug Testing Is a Violation of Student Rights Constant Craving: How Drugs Interact with the Nervous System Don't Drink to That!: Raising Awareness About the Risks of Driving While Intoxicated Fighting Fire with Fire: Learning About the Effects of Drugs and Drug Treatment Programs in the Science or Health Classroom Foul Ball: Educating Youth on the Dangers of Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports More Lesson Plans on The Drug War
	Getting In Is Half the Battle: Exploring Affirmative Action in University Admissions Grade Expectations: Critiquing Ways in Which Education Initiatives Promote Diversity and Other College Admissions Criteria Higher (Priced) Education: Considering How to Counteract the Rising Price of College Tuition Lesson in Learning: Assessing Recommendations from the Commission on No Child Left Behind Ooh, You're In Trouble!: Debating the Consequences of Disruptive Behavior in School More Lesson Plans on Education Policy
	A Test Case for Individual Rights : Assessing Whether Student Drug Testing Is a Violation of Student Rights Another Way of Life: Examining the Amish Culture and Traditions Laws and Force in Law Enforcement: Exploring Police Brutality and Individual Rights True Crime: An Exploration of Urban Crime Statistics Student Violence in America's Schools - Issue in depth
	A Safe Place for Hate?: Exploring the Conflict between Free Speech and Social Responsibility on the Internet Burning Hatred: Discussing the Constitutional Conflict Over Cross Burning Does Free Speech Exist in School? Exploring Students' First Amendment Rights Fight for Your Rights: Exploring First Amendment Issues at Columbia University Freedom of Hate Speech?: Investigating Hate Group Propaganda and Free Speech on the Internet More Lesson Plans on Free Speech
	A World in Transition: Exploring the "Redefinition" of Different Countries and States as Results of Unification or Division Helping Hands: Examining the United Nations Security Council's Involvement in Affairs Around the Globe Nobel Peacekeeping: Examining the Goals Outlined in the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize Lecture The Height of Diplomacy: Staging a World Summit in the Classroom To Inspect or Not to Inspect, That Is the Question: Exploring the Points of View of Those Involved in the Decision Whether to Allow U.N. Inspectors into Iraq