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Issue 37, Spring 2010

Into the Mainstream

In third grade, Julia Horsman’s entire science project consisted of being herded outside with the other kids with disabilities and rolling soda cans down a ramp.

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Ability

December 14, 2009

As a kid, I remember listening wide-eyed to my grandmother tell me about the “Dummy Room.” The Dummy Room was one of her first assignments as a young teacher in small-town Iowa in the 1930s. Like other Dummy Rooms across the country, it was the dumping ground for the school district’s hard cases.

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Ability Bullying & Bias

September 30, 2009

“Your Child Will Be Placed in Level ...”

During the fourth week of school, the form came home, stuffed into my daughter’s backpack: Your student scored a XX on his/her DIBELS literacy test, administered this Fall/Summer. Based on this score, your child will be placed in Open Court Level XYZ [with] TEACHER A...

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Race & Ethnicity Ability

Issue 36, Fall 2009

Close to Home

Jackie Brown prided herself on teaching her students about disabilities. But could she confront her own feelings about her mother and polio?

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Ability

Issue 36, Fall 2009

Speak Out for Understanding

Teaching Tolerance illustration of paper with questions about students disabilities

Students with learning disabilities create a documentary film to share their wisdom.

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Ability

Issue 36, Fall 2009

Inclusion on the Bookshelf

Teaching Tolerance illustration with kids with disabilities floating surrounded by open books

In fiction, children with disabilities are often still segregated, labeled, lonely and lost. These titles will help bring your school’s library into the age of inclusion.

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Ability

Issue 33, Spring 2008

Peeling Back the Labels

Child writing on the chalkboard "I will not talk in class"

A child's ADHD diagnosis raises one parent's concerns about the stereotypes that too often surround the disorder.

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Ability

Issue 32, Fall 2007

Does This Child Have a Friend?

Teaching Tolerance illustration of a student spotlighted inside classroom

Innovative social inclusion programs are reducing the social isolation of students with disabilities, ending harassment and stereotyping, and improving life opportunities.

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Ability

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Into the Mainstream

Ending Child Abuse At School

“Your Child Will Be Placed in Level ...”

Close to Home

Speak Out for Understanding

Inclusion on the Bookshelf

Peeling Back the Labels

Does This Child Have a Friend?

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