PBS/WNET View an update to the 12-year documentary project that visited seven classrooms in seven countries and offers a glimpse of seven children struggling to get a basic education. The film catches up with the seven, who are now adults, to see how their lives have turned out. Learn more at ww.pbs.org/show/time-school.

PBS/ITVS Explore innovative approaches to education with hosts Baratunde Thurston and Sara Ramirez. Speakers, including Anna Deavere Smith and Sal Khan, discuss the school-to-prison pipeline, micromanaging kids, and turning struggling students into scholars. Visit ww.pbs.org/program/ted-talks/ted-talks-education-revolution.

PBS/WGBH/ITVS (Check local listings) This film offers three stories featuring teachers and local leaders, in struggling rural American communities, who join forces to beat the odds and guide their children toward the long-term goal of graduating high school in 2027. Visit http://worldchannel.org/programs/episode/arf-s4-class-of-27.

PBS/LWP On September 11, 2001, Flight 77 slammed into the Pentagon, killing 184 people. What happened behind the walls of the Pentagon is a largely untold chapter in history. Fifteen years later, survivors and first responders shed light on that tragic day. Visit www.pbs.org/program/911-inside-pentagon.

PBS/Futuro MediaLearn how Asian-American, black millennial, Arab-American and Latino evangelical voters are exerting their growing strength and influence in this 2016 election special about power and politics, demographics and democracy. Visit http://futuromediagroup.org/media-property/america-by-the-numbers.

PBS/Ken Burns This documentary tells the story of an American couple who in 1939 embarked on a secret mission in Eastern Europe to save refugees and dissidents from the Nazis. The producers have partnered with two education organizations -- Facing History and Ourselves and the Holocaust Educators Network -- to make this project useful to teachers. See the lesson plans at www.facinghistory.org/defying-nazis. The 90-minute film tells the story of Waitstill and Martha Sharp, a Unitarian minister and his wife from Wellesley, Massachusetts, who left their children behind in the care of their…

A new series of short videos is being offered free by Bowdoin College as its contribution to a national effort aimed at improving civics education in the United States. “Founding Principles: American Governance in Theory and Action,” is a series comprising 15 video episodes, each 11-15 minutes in length, that serve as a readily available instructive tool for use in grade 9-12 classrooms and by anyone interested in better understanding the American system of government. Written and narrated by Bowdoin College Government Professor Andrew Rudalevige, “Founding Principles” provides an…

M. Gail Hickey, ed. Reflecting on Service‐Learning in Higher Education. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. 230 pages. $80.0 cloth; 79.77 eBook.This book examines forms of pedagogy such as service‐learning, experiential learning, and problem‐based learning in order to determine how students make connections between and among abstract academic concepts and real‐life issues. This edited collection is divided into three sections—“Reflecting on Community Partnerships,” “Reflecting on Classroom Practice,” and “Reflecting on Diversity”—so as to represent interdisciplinary…

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF), the nonprofit organization that founded and preserves the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the National Mall, has released new curriculum materials that are available to teachers to teach Vietnam in their classroom. The "Echoes From The Wall" curriculum set explores the Vietnam War and era and includes14 lesson plans: background readings, in-class and extension activities tied to national learning standards, and lecture presentations incorporating primary source audio and video. The lesson plans cover a range of topics, from “Motivations for U.S.…

“Understanding Sacrifice: An ABMC Education Program about World War II in Northern Europe” is a free online collection of classroom activities related to World War II, found online at abmceducation.org. Created by 18 teachers from around the world, each activity was made by researching the life of one fallen American hero from that war who is buried in an American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) cemetery in Europe. There are activities for science, art, and history. There is also an entire non-fiction book (a free PDF), “When the Akimotos went to War,” by Matthew Elms, about two young men…