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Issue 64, Spring 2020

They Deserve Better

Alexandra Melnick sits in front of a brick wall with several posters hanging behind her.

Mississippi students were inspired by local civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer to fight for justice in their community today.

Issue 64, Spring 2020

The New YA

Illustration of a young person reading under a yellow light while surrounded by a scene from the book they are reading.

Young readers’ editions can change the way we teach history.

Issue 64, Spring 2020

Ending Curriculum Violence

Illustration of several school children holding a stalk of cotton with the student of color in the center looking defeated and hurt.

Yes, curriculum can be violent—whether you intend it or not. Here’s what it looks like and how you can avoid it.

Issue 64, Spring 2020

What White Colleagues Need to Understand

Clarice Brazas and Charlie McGeehan together in a classroom.

White supremacy doesn’t stop at the teachers’ lounge door.

Issue 64, Spring 2020

A Message From Our Managing Editor

In all the changes that have occurred in the last decade, one steady current is clear to TT Managing Editor Monita Bell: Our work is about doing right by all of our kids.

Issue 64, Spring 2020

The America Project

Illustration of young and diverse students in the classroom holding up signs with various states' names displayed, as well as one that lists the United States' territory Puerto Rico in colorful letters and stars.

When Carmen asks her mom what it means to be Puerto Rican and American, she learns a valuable lesson about identity and culture.

December 10, 2019

How Did Sugar Feed Slavery?

1858 engraving of enslaved people working in the sugar cane fields of the British West Indes, Lordprice Collection/Alamy Stock Photo.

In this inquiry, middle-school students explore the economic and human consequences of European sugar consumption during the era of the transatlantic slave trade.

Topic

Slavery

Issue 66, Spring 2021

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They Deserve Better

The New YA

Ending Curriculum Violence

What White Colleagues Need to Understand

A Message From Our Managing Editor

The America Project

How Did Sugar Feed Slavery?

What it Means to Be an Anti-racist Teacher

It Was Always About Control

What Educators Can Do in 100 Days

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