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February 8, 2018

Athletes, Advocates and Role Models (The Philly Special)

Malcolm Jenkins, Philadelphia Eagles | Photo by Chris Szagola, AP Images | Teaching Tolerance

In the wake of the Philadelphia Eagles' Super Bowl LII win, this South Jersey teacher looks past the celebration to talk with his students about how some players use their influence to create positive change and to challenge his students to do the same.

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Rights & Activism

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February 7, 2018

Hate at School: January 2018

In a black and white photograph, a young girl wearing a head covering looks pensively off camera

Last month, we tracked 64 school-based episodes of hate in 32 states—the most since October.

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Race & Ethnicity Religion Bullying & Bias

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February 6, 2018

Black History Month Teaching: Miseducation or Empowerment?

This high school English teacher encourages educators to focus on African Americans' contributions to the United States, with the Harlem Renaissance as a way to begin.

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Race & Ethnicity

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February 2, 2018

The Election, One Year Later: Struggling With Critical Conversations at a Midwestern High School

In the fall of 2016, anthropologist Jia-Hui Stefanie Wong was observing students and educators at a high school when the presidential election took place. This winter, she followed up to see what had changed in the last year.

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Race & Ethnicity Immigration Rights & Activism

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Jia-Hui Stefanie Wong

Jia-Hui Stefanie Wong is a visiting lecturer in Educational Studies at Trinity College and a Ph.D. candidate in Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an educational anthropologist whose research explores how educational inequities are produced, reproduced, and challenged in K-12 schools. She is licensed as a secondary social studies teacher and previously worked in after school programming.

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February 1, 2018

The Courage to Teach Hard History

Abolitionists William Still, Sojourner Truth, William Loyd Garrison, unidentified male and female slaves, and Black Union soldiers in front of American flag

The central role that slavery played in the development of the United States is beyond dispute. Yet, the practices of teaching and learning about this fact remain woefully inadequate. Professor Hasan Kwame Jeffries introduces Teaching Hard History: American Slavery, which can help change that.

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Kathy Swan, John Lee and S.G. Grant

Dr. Kathy Swan is a professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Kentucky. Swan has been a four-time recipient of the National Technology Leadership Award in Social Studies Education, innovating with web-based interactive technology curricula including the Historical Scene Investigation Project and Digital Docs in a Box. She is co-author of the book And Action! Doing Documentaries in the Social Studies Classroom and children’s series Thinking Like A Citizen and co-editor of the book, Teaching the C3 Framework: A Guide to Inquiry Based Instruction in the Social Studies. She is

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Teaching Hard History: American Slavery

This report summarizes research conducted by the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2017 on the state of teaching about American slavery in K-12 schools.

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Slavery

January 31, 2018

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Teaching Hard History: American Slavery

With Teaching Hard History, we’re calling on American educators, curriculum writers and policy makers to confront the fact that slavery and racial injustice are not only a foundational part of the nation’s past, but a continuing influence on the present.

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Slavery Race & Ethnicity Class Rights & Activism

February 13, 2018

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January 31, 2018

The Election, One Year Later: Life Goes On at an East Coast Middle School

When anthropologist Alexandra Freidus was observing students and educators at an East Coast middle school in fall 2016, she got to see how the presidential election affected them. She followed up with them a year later.

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Race & Ethnicity Religion Immigration Rights & Activism

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