Rejecting Indifference

After watching a movie on the genocide in Cambodia, students were inspired to develop a curriculum to educate students about the history of genocide across the world that could be integrated into classrooms.

To develop the curriculum, students partnered with a local Cambodian association, spent several years gathering research about genocide, formed the curriculum with the help of another class, and used their curriculum to partner with a legislative bill that would require an additional unit of instruction on the Holocaust and other acts of genocide around the world. The bill passed in Illinois, and the curriculum is now being distributed nationwide.