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Resources for the University of Chicago Summer Institute for Educators 2017

June 19, 2017 | All Grades
By Pulitzer Center Education
Unwanted and Unprotected: Widows in India

Image by Amy Toensing. India, 2013.

Image by Steve Elfers. United States, 2015.

A Donald Trump piñata in the center of Mexico City. Many Mexicans are deeply fearful of Trump's enacting his campaign promises to cancel or alter NAFTA, restrict remittances sent to Mexico from the United States, deport millions of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S., and build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Image by Nick Schifrin. Mexico, 2016.

A Donald Trump piñata in the center of Mexico City. Many Mexicans are deeply fearful of Trump's enacting his campaign promises to cancel or alter NAFTA, restrict remittances sent to Mexico from the United States, deport millions of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S., and build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Image by Nick Schifrin. Mexico, 2016.

Ivan Kulshytskiy is a deputy Cossack leader in the Donetsk People’s Republic

Ivan Kulshytskiy is a deputy Cossack leader in the Donetsk People’s Republic. The Cossacks have long cherished self-rule and independence. Kulshytskiy says the Ukrainian government prevented him and other Ukrainian Cossacks from owning land his grandfather died fighting for. Today, the Donetsk People’s Republic allows him more freedom, and, in turn, the Cossacks pledge allegiance to the local Donetsk authorities. Image by Nick Schifrin. Donetsk People’s Republic, Ukraine, 2016.

Still frame from the broadcast for PBS NewsHour. Kenya, 2015.

Image from the project, "Lifting the Veil on Polluters in China," by Fred de Sam Lazaro, Shi Lihong and Gary Marcuse. China, 2015.

From the film by Craig and Brent Renaud. Honduras, 2015.

From the film by Craig & Brent Renaud. Honduras, 2015.

The guardianship system gives a woman a legal status resembling that of a minor.
Illustration by Eiko Ojala/The New Yorker.

A Saudi employee helps a customer at a dress shop in Al Faisaliah Mall. Image by Kate Brooks. Saudi Arabia, 2013.
Gustavo, from the film by Craig and Brent Renaud. Honduras, 2015.

The following are lesson plans that have been written using the reporting by journalists that presented as part of the U Chicago Summer Teacher Institute:

 

Kathryn Carlson – Widowhood and Women's Rights

 

Steve Elfers – World Water Day
                        The Impact of Disappearing Groundwater in Four Countries
                        Vanishing Groundwater

 

Zach Fannin – Cold War Fault Lines
                        Reporting Violence in Kenya and in My Community

 

Gary Marcuse – Religion and the Environment in China
                           Searching for Sacred Mountain: Religion and Environment in China

 

Renaud Brothers – Why They Flee: Understanding the Migration of Minors

 

Katherine Zoepf – Women Learning and Practicing Law in Saudi Arabia

 

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