Teaching teens election’s ‘scandals, lies and incivility’

Name: Teaching teens election’s ‘scandals, lies and incivility’
Uploaded: 2016-07-12T23:26:08Z
Duration: P386S

Clip: 07/12/2016 | 6m 26s

The 2016 election mudslinging from “crooked” Hillary Clinton and “dangerously incoherent” Donald Trump has even piqued the interest of teens — and made teaching high school civics that much more difficult. So it’s time to get creative, which one 12th grade government teacher has done with his ‘scandals, lies and incivility’ curriculum. Education Week’s Lisa Stark reports for the NewsHour.

Aired: 07/12/16

Rating: NR

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