Freedom of Opinion and Expression: The Unfinished Human Rights Agenda
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K-12 Educational Standards

Standards for Grade(s): 11

United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century

11.11 Students analyze the major social problems and domestic policy issues in contemporary American society.

Standards for Grade(s): 12

Principles of American Democracy

12.3 Students evaluate and take and defend positions on what the fundamental values and principles of civil society are (i.e., the autonomous sphere of voluntary personal, social, and economic relations that are not part of government), their interdependence, and the meaning and importance of those values and principles for a free society.

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California State Board of Education Content Standards

 

First Aired: 12/12/2000
27 minutes

Jane Alexander, former Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, human rights and peace activist, actor and author, examines what remains to be done to secure the effective observance of human rights in the United States and around the world. (#5223)