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Our Challenges: A Blended Poem Activity
In this lesson, students will take a deeper look at two major speeches on race – one by President Bill Clinton, the other by then-candidate Barack Obama – and discuss the core issues in each.
In Search of Balance
Teaching Tolerance offers tools to help teachers and students get through the grueling and seemingly unrewarding weeks of mandated testing.
Understanding Size Bias
A Conversation with Rebecca Puhl—this piece is a resource for the Teaching Tolerance article Weighing In
Exposing Hidden Homophobia
Students learn to spot bias in their culture —and confront their own homophobia in the process.
Hesitation and Hope
The 2008 election showed us that true progress in the struggle for equality is possible. Yet there is still much work to be done.
Freedom Riders
An angry mob beat the Freedom Riders when they arrived in Montgomery. How do you explain that to young children?
How School Taught Me I Was Poor
Third grade was a bad year. Third grade was the year I learned in school that I was poor.