As more than 900,000 New York City public school students enter their second full week of school, they have lots of learning to look forward to, including new lessons that focus on American Jews’ contributions to the history of the United States.
A nearly 300-page curricular supplement, “Hidden Voices: Jewish Americans in United States History, Volume 1,” aims to educate students in kindergarten through 12th grade about who the Jewish people are, beyond what they might know about the Holocaust and European Jewry.
The new resource, which is available to all New York City public school teachers, is the result of a nearly two-year collaboration between the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, an advocacy group, and the New York City Department of Education…