How should schools teach kids about what happened at the US Capitol on Jan. 6? We asked 6 education experts
- Written by David Schonfeld, Director, National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement, University of Southern California

Teachers scrambled to create lesson plans to help students make sense of the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol right after it happened.
It’s a fraught task. Even the news media wasn’t sure what to call this...