Teaching 9/11 history to students too young to remember

The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks may be the defining moment of a generation, but Purdue University history professor Randy Roberts says the undergraduates he teaches are a bit unclear on the details. Until recently, says Frank Tangredi, a social-studies editorial director for the publisher Pearson Education Inc., he and his writers assumed that kids reading their materials would have some personal memory of 9/11. “We’re finally reaching that point where it is not part of the memory of any except the oldest high school kids,” he says. (*article includes link to free Online Learning Exchange materials)

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