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New Online Genre Supplies Lessons on the War in Iraq - By SAM DILLON, NY Times

The journalists and former teachers who produce the NewsHour Extra Web site (http://www.pbs.org/newshour.extra/), which is associated with PBS's "The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer," are among the most conspicuous practitioners of a new hybrid online genre — part daily journalism, part education — that has taken shape during the war. They produce daily online news stories and lesson plans intended to help teachers respond intelligently to student demands for classroom discussion of what is going on in Iraq.

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