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Issue 26, Fall 2004

Holocaust Survivor Inspires Healing

This piece accompanies the feature story " Voices of Columbine." Holocaust survivor Gerda Klein, known for her work to reduce bigotry and hunger through tolerance-based education, drew from her own painful history to

Topic

Rights & Activism

Issue 53, Summer 2016

Viewing Student Data Through an Intersectional Lens

Seeing students’ multiple identity layers and weaving them into the curriculum are both important ways to apply the concept of intersectionality in practice. Another key way to do this is to take a deep look at the

Issue 40, Fall 2011

Against the Grain

This piece is to accompany James Loewen's feature story " Getting the Civil War Right." Recently I spent two years at the Smithsonian Institution surveying 12 popular American history textbooks, learning how teachers use

Topic

Race & Ethnicity

Issue 40, Fall 2011

A Second Revolution

This piece is to accompany the Teaching Tolerance article "Getting the Civil War Right." Some historians have called the period of Reconstruction that followed the Civil War the "second American Revolution" and the 13th

Topic

Race & Ethnicity

Issue 44, Summer 2013

Helping Students Realize Their Potential

Tracy Oliver-Gary is helping students realize their full potential.

Issue 26, Fall 2004

"Mr. D, Don't Let Them Take Our School"

An interview with Principal Frank DeAngelis of Columbine High School.

Topic

Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism

July 26, 2017

Personal Stories

This online sidebar accompanies the Teaching Tolerance article " Possession Obsession." Anna Sanchez (not her real name), 19, wishes her school had taught that control can signal abuse rather than love. At age 13, she

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

July 26, 2017

LGBT Students

This online sidebar accompanies the Teaching Tolerance article " Possession Obsession." LGBT teenagers have the same vulnerabilities to abusive dating as straight kids—and then some. “There’s an added layer for these

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

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