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Issue 60, Fall 2018

Toolkit for “A Museum. A Memorial. A Message.”

This toolkit—adapted from our viewer’s guide for 'An Outrage: A Documentary Film About Lynching in the American South'—provides guidance for educators hoping to tackle this tough topic in the classroom.

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Issue 5, Fall 2023

Exclusion Is Unconstitutional

Illustration of various people looking down at the same spot with a mosaic of book covers behind them.

Acts of censorship in education perpetuated by a small group with concentrated power go against the principles outlined in the United States Constitution.

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Issue 40, Fall 2011

Against the Grain

This piece is to accompany James Loewen's feature story " Getting the Civil War Right." Recently I spent two years at the Smithsonian Institution surveying 12 popular American history textbooks, learning how teachers use

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Preparing to Teach 'The New Jim Crow'

Teaching 'The New Jim Crow' Preparing to Teach 'The New Jim Crow' In The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander introduces readers to the phenomenon of mass incarceration in the

July 6, 2017

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Issue 59, Summer 2018

What We’re Watching

Dim the lights and get ready to learn with these TT-approved films!

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How to ‘Roar’

Tips for using grassroots organizing to engage your school’s parents.

Professional Development Topic

Instruction

School Climate

August 24, 2009

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Issue 62, Summer 2019

Toolkit for “The Subscribed Classroom: Using Podcasts to Teach About Social Justice”

Illustration of an open book where one of the pages is set up in the style of a podcast episode player.

Before you introduce a podcast to your students, consider these steps and recommendations.

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White Anti-Racism: Living the Legacy

What does "white anti-racist" mean? How can guilt get in the way? And what's all this talk about being "colorblind"? Learning for Justice, then Teaching Tolerance, asked community activists to share their thoughts on these questions, and others. Their answers shine light on the concepts of comfort, power, privilege and identity.

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Teacher Leadership

July 6, 2009

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April 16, 2019

An Intersectional Lesson From Reconstruction

Students and teachers pose outside the Freedmen's Bureau school in Beaufort, South Carolina.

The lessons of Reconstruction extend beyond the history classroom.

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Rights & Activism

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April 17, 2023

‘Never Again’ Starts With Education

A photo of the eternal flame in the Hall of Remembrance at the Holocaust Memorial

Mandating Holocaust education in U.S. public schools and simultaneously banning or censoring other “hard histories” is ineffective, disingenuous and further demonstrates the importance of teaching honest history.

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Religion Rights & Activism

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