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Teachers: 9/11 'our history, generation'

Long Island educators attend a Tuesday workshop on teaching students about the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. There are many ways to approach the topic, one says, and some students are too young to recall what happened. Videojournalist: Craig Ruttle (July 12, 2011)

Jason Manning lingered beside the big windows on the unfinished 48th floor of 7 World Trade Center, gazing at the immense square shapes below, the "footprints" of where the two great towers once stood.

Manning, 31, who teaches social studies at Oceanside High School, already includes the events of Sept. 11, 2001, in his instruction of 11th- and 12th-graders. But he said Tuesday that he will...

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