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title: 'Resources for Students and Teachers Returning to School'
description: 'As the start of the new school year approaches, we wanted to remind educators and students of the excellent free resources DPIC offers. Our college…'
canonical: 'https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/resources-for-students-and-teachers-returning-to-school'
section: news
date: '2013-08-09T14:25:53-04:00'
updated: '2025-03-14T14:35:46-04:00'
source: 'Death Penalty Information Center'
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! As the start of the new school year approaches, we wanted to remind educators and students of the excellent free resources DPIC offers. Our college curriculum, [**Capital Punishment in Context**](https://capitalpunishmentincontext.org/), uses a case-study model to introduce students to the death penalty system and allows them to access more in-depth research on a variety of topics, such as innocence, race, and mental illness. Each case includes relevant links to outside resources, including scholarly articles. Our [**High School Curriculum**](https://deathpenaltycurriculum.org/) covers the history of the death penalty, arguments for and against capital punishment, and an introduction to the legal process. It features interactive maps with state-specific information. This award-winning curriculum is now available as an innovative [**iBook**](https://deathpenaltycurriculum.org/ibook) for the iPad. Students doing projects or writing essays on the death penalty can visit our [**Student Resources**](/article.php?did=1917) page for suggested research questions and sources on a variety of issues. Both of these curricula have already been used by students and teachers around the country and internationally. DPIC's website received a 5-star educational rating from [MERLOT](https://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm) (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching), a program of the California State University, in partnership with higher education institutions, professional societies, and industry.

(DPIC, August 9, 2013). See [**Educational Curricula**](/article.php?did=549&scid=58).