Bellisario College of Communications

Making difficult topics teachable

On the one-year anniversary of the tragic shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Boaz Dvir, director of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education Initiative at Penn State, and assistant professor in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, has shared his thoughts about the importance of effectively teaching about difficult topics, including the Holocaust, slavery and bigotry.

​Read Dvir's full op-ed published in the Pennsylvania Capital-Star: https://www.penncapital-star.com/commentary/tree-of-life-first-anniversary-how-to-teach-tough-topics-to-our-kids-opinion/

Last Updated October 27, 2019