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February 14, 2018

“All Our Terrible and Beautiful History”: Teach American History as a Human Story

Professor David W. Blight, director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, explains why prevailing American historical narratives necessitate Teaching Tolerance's Teaching Hard History report and recommendations.

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Slavery Rights & Activism

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April 17, 2018

Hate at School: March 2018

While student activism rightfully stole the headlines, we tracked 35 school-based episodes of hate and bias in 18 states during the month of March.

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Religion Bullying & Bias

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January 18, 2018

The Election, One Year Later: Stories From Anthropologists of Education

In the fall of 2016 and spring of 2017, these four anthropologists observed how students and educators responded to the presidential election. This winter, they followed up to see what had changed in the last year.

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Immigration Rights & Activism

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Best Practices for Serving English Language Learners and Their Families

Are you looking for culturally responsive ways to support English language learners? Based on our recently updated ELL best practices guide, this webinar presents specific tools and strategies for supporting ELLs in instruction, family engagement, classroom culture and school policies.

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Immigration Rights & Activism

January 30, 2018

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May 22, 2018

Love Your Magic Conference

Read about how one teacher used a Learning for Justice grant to help fund a daylong conference empowering girls of color in Boston.

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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June 12, 2018

AP World History Is Worth Saving

Teachers are pushing back against proposed changes they say would reframe AP World History as Eurocentric. Teaching Tolerance stands with them.

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Religion Rights & Activism

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January 15, 2019

Why I’m Participating in the L.A. Teachers’ Strike

Hundreds of people gathered together, holding protest signs and umbrellas in Los Angeles, California.

We caught up with Amanda Tooley, a fifth-grade teacher in the country’s second-largest school district, to find out why she’s striking and what she hopes for her students and community.

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Class Rights & Activism

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Civil Rights History Project: Mary Jenkins

Mary Jenkins describes growing up in the Jim Crow era and frequently being told, “You can’t”—both by a mother terrified of what might happen to her daughter if she stepped out of her expected place, and by a system that had institutionalized segregation as a way of life.

Mary Jenkins and Will Griffin

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3-5

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Class Rights & Activism

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History

February 25, 2019

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The Day of Mass Removal: Kara Kondo

Kara Kondo: I can always picture [the scene]. The sun was setting and the crowd was gathering where the people — some of your friends — and there were hundreds of people there. Some were there to say goodbye, others came

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3-5

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Class Rights & Activism

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History

February 5, 2019

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February 6, 2019

Call to Action: All Children Deserve to Be Free

A young person's hand reaching over barbed-wire fencing.

Guided by the belief that all children deserve to be free and to be in school, the organizers of Teachers Against Child Detention are calling upon fellow educators to demand the end of child immigrant detention.

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Immigration Rights & Activism

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