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New Resources for Teaching Hard History

Our students deserve an honest account of our nation’s history. That’s why we’re proud to share our new and expanded Teaching Hard History resources. They will help you tell a more complete story of American slavery that starts with Indigenous enslavement and includes students of all ages. To teach our students the truth about our shared hard history, we’ll need to start where the stories—and the learning—begin.

  • Teaching Hard History: American Slavery |Key Concepts Videos
  • Teaching Hard History: Grades K-5
  • Teaching Hard History: Grades 6–12
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How We Waste the Potential of Immigrants

The county career center in my school district boasts a 96-percent placement rate, even in these days of near double-digit unemployment. That’s because its graduates develop skills our community needs. Students build houses. They repair cars. They network computers. Whether their next step is college, an apprenticeship or immediate employment, most high school students who complete a tech school program exit with a head start toward security. If only that were true for all.
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Immigration
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Inspections

Medical and legal inspections were the first of many tests immigrants would have to pass on their arduous journey to establish lives in the United States.
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Gwenyth Swain
Grade Level
3-5
Topic
Immigration
Subject
Civics
History
Geography
Social Justice Domain
Diversity
July 7, 2014
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Who Claims Me?

In Boston, widely regarded as the center of the abolitionist movement, black leaders called on citizens to resist the newly passed Fugitive Slave Law in 1850 in order “to make Massachusetts a battlefield in defense of liberty.”
by
Learning for Justice Staff
Grade Level
9-12
Topic
Class Rights & Activism
Subject
Civics
History
Economics
Social Justice Domain
Identity Diversity Justice Action
December 6, 2017
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Talla Cisse

Talla Cisse is an educator and graduate student in Wilmington, Delaware, and a 2019 Lee Summer Fellow at Teaching Tolerance. Talla taught American history as a founding teacher for Apex Collegiate Academy in Baton Rouge. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in policy at the University of Delaware. In his free time, Talla works with the Delaware Youth Advocacy Council students to develop a deep understanding of the landscape of education policy and the advocacy process.