article
1,991 Results
article
Toolkit for "Segregation by Design"
This toolkit suggests ways to use primary sources to help students uncover the realities of segregation and how it was deliberately perpetuated in the United States.
article
A Social Justice Book Study Group
Seeking to push fellow teachers’ thinking around social justice issues, this teacher and her colleague started a book study group. Here’s how they did it.
lesson
Reporting on Environmental Racism
In this upper-grades activity, students use basic news reporting skills to explore the impact of environmental racism.
July 6, 2009
article
Segregation Is Still Part of Our Classroom
Through Big Brothers, Big Sisters, I’ve been working with a little girl from the neighborhood where I used to teach. I think very highly of this group and have only had good experiences with them. However, at a recent area-wide picnic, I noticed something disturbing. Most (not all, but the vast majority) of the children being mentored were African American or Latino. Most of the adult mentors were white or Asian. Again, this was not without exception, but was apparent.
article
Seeing Themselves in Books
Take a cue from this teacher during National Book Month— audit your classroom library!
article
Peggy McIntosh: Beyond the Knapsack

Learn how Serial Testimony places the emphasis on student experience.
article
Teach This: Navajo Code Talkers, Pocahontas and Andrew Jackson

The November 27 Oval Office ceremony honoring Navajo Code Talkers included what has become a highly controversial remark by the president referencing Pocahontas. Use our discussion questions to address this current event—and the history behind it—with your students.
text
Informational
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote the opinion for Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, a groundbreaking case that overturned the "separate but equal" standard set forth in Plessy v. Ferguson. The Supreme Court decided this case unanimously on May 17, 1954.
July 2, 2014
article
Integrating for Equity

Educators, activists and academics are raising the bar when it comes to achieving truly integrated schools.