Politics holds new role in high school classrooms
USA TodayPosted: November 6th, 2008 by R. Lee Wrights
“Tuesday’s historic election of Barack Obama was, to most onlookers, a watershed event — a political game-changer, a passing of the generational torch and a defining moment in American race relations. To the students in Gil Stange’s second-period AP Economics class at Towson High School, it was a chance to test a theory: What if the Republican candidate had been the African American and the Democrat the 72-year-old white guy?” (11/05/08)
