In the classroom, students take part in group discussions and use primary source material to learn about different historical events.

[4] The curriculum aims to create a history course with a reflective component, allowing students to think about modern day prejudices.

[9] The course's goal is to help students realize their role in society, and to promote global citizenship so that future events like the ones discussed can be prevented.

The course also meets Common Core Standards by offering resources and professional development, using primary source material.

The organization has been working longest with Boston Public Schools and has developed units for their civics and history curricula for grades 8-11.

Facing History provides online courses divided into single week sessions, which include group discussions, videos, and conference calls.

Margot Stern Strom, the executive director,[4] cofounded the organization in 1976 and received the Charles A. Dana Award for Pioneering Achievements in Education on November 5, 1997, in New York City.

The one study that did meet standards showed primary outcomes of relationship maturity, ethnic identity, civic attitudes and participation, racism, and moral reasoning.

[11] The study suggested that, in a group of 346 eighth grade students, Facing History positively affected their maturity level and made them less racist.

to be the only way some students learn about the Holocaust in today's society, and historian Deborah Lipstadt wrote in 1995 that this single approach is not sufficient.