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    The Genocide Education Project
    51 Commonwealth Ave.
    San Francisco, CA 94116
    (415) 264-4203
    [email protected]
    www.GenocideEd ucation.org

    Contact: Sara Cohan

    GENOCIDE EDUCATION PROJECT BRINGS RESOURCES TO NATIONAL HISTORY
    TEACHERS' CONFERENCE
    http://www.genocideeducation.org/pr/200 9/11_25_2009.htm

    Atlanta, GA --The Genocide Education Project participated in the annual
    National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) conference held this year in
    Atlanta, GA from November 13-15. As an exhibitor at the conference, The
    Genocide Education Project provided educational resources and guidance
    to history teachers gathered from across the United States for the top
    educational gathering of their field for secondary school educators.

    Throughout the two-day event, Executive Director, Raffi Momjian and
    Education Director, Sara Cohan spoke one-on-one with individual
    teachers, advising them on how to incorporate the Armenian Genocide into
    their classroom curriculum. Assisting the effort was Suzanne Aivazian
    Cohan, a former public school teacher and counselor, who was able to
    provide teachers with her unique and valuable insight as a child of a
    genocide survivor. The Genocide Education Project, which participated in
    the conference for the seventh consecutive year, provided approximately
    one thousand high school and middle-school teachers with classroom
    resources on the Armenian Genocide. Many school district supervisors,
    school administrators, and college professors also attended the conference.

    Keynote speakers included Emory University Jewish Studies professor
    Deborah E. Lipstadt, who writes extensively on Holocaust denial and has
    also written about the Armenian Genocide. Lipstadt spoke about her
    experiences as a defendant in a liable trial in England against the
    infamous Holocaust denier, David Irving. Throughout her lecture she
    spoke of the importance of fighting genocide denial, including the
    Armenian Genocide. She sent a strong message to teachers regarding the
    need to combat denial of the Armenian Genocide through education,
    prompting additional educators to seek out resources from The Genocide
    Education Project.


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    The Genocide Education Project is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3)
    organization that assists educators in teaching about human rights and
    genocide, particularly the Armenian Genocide, by developing and
    distributing instructional materials, providing access to teaching
    resources and organizing educational workshops.
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