The National Academy for Teaching and Learning About Aging

While researching a class project ageism and how it's played out in our language, I came across the NATLA site. The broad subject of our project for the social policy class is to combat ageist attitudes in language usage via a social policy program. NATLA fits neatly with that, in that it's entirely about teaching to counteract ageism.

What Do You Call Older People?

The study by the AARP referenced in this article is an example of a Research and Development project on ageism.

This site is just a treasure trove of good info. This is a list of the key understandings that the National Academy for Teaching and Learning about Aging is trying to get into school curricula.