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Schools Confronting Racism and Community Pushback: Three Lessons from ‘Sounds Like Hate’
A new podcast offers valuable lessons about fighting racism in schools and communities.
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Teach This: The Voting Rights Act
Pair an excerpt from ‘One Person, No Vote: How Not All Voters Are Treated Equally’ with a clip from a documentary about Congressman John Lewis to lead a conversation with students about the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Pay BIPOC Educators for Their DEI Labor
Volunteer-based DEI teams often recreate the inequities they are designed to address. Here is how to do better.
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Leading Conversations After Crisis
Our advisory board shared ideas for starting discussions the day after the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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Decarceration Begins With School Discipline Reform
Educators have a role in ending discipline that criminalizes youth. Reforms, including trauma-informed and restorative practices, can disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline.
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Against the Current
Native American activists use civil disobedience and consensus-building to resolve an old dispute over natural resources.
August 7, 2017
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How to Be an Ally in the Classroom
Join Learning for Justice for this webinar on how you can be an ally and a partner in empowerment for marginalized students and colleagues.
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Police Violence: New Jersey Bill Puts Onus and Blame On Children
This bill calls for “mutual cooperation and respect” concerning interactions with police—and it misses the point.
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Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln delivered this famous speech at the dedication of the National Cemetary in Gettysburg, the burial site of Union Soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.
July 10, 2017
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An Evening With Michelle Alexander
Join Learning for Justice and Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’, to discuss her timely book and suggestions to introduce high school students to topics such as mass incarceration and racial caste.