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Teachers on TV: Classes hit the airwaves during pandemic

by Associated Press
| April 18, 2020 7:27 AM

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Using his cat’s blanket as green screen, history teacher Bill Smith recorded himself teaching a lesson on New Jersey’s underground railroad, taking student viewers on a tour of sites including a river where slave hunters would try to reenslave people attempting crossings.

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