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April 6, 2017

Bias and Skepticism: How Far Is Too Far?

How do we help students fine-tune their skepticism so that it leads to knowledge-seeking and openness to new ideas?

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July 7, 2009

Demographics Activities

Involve your students in the debate over race, class and integration.

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'Everybody's Different, But Everybody's OK'

Personal Story: Ages 2-5

July 29, 2009

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Issue 45, Fall 2013

Toolkit for “Is My School Racist?”

An important step in gauging attitudes toward race in your school is assessing school climate. School climate questionnaires can be used to: uncover differences in teacher and student perceptions; open professional

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McCarthy: Enemy of the Negro People (excerpt, p. 14)

This journal article excerpt describes how the House Un-American Activities Committee tried to undermine the Civil Rights Movement by targeting some activists as communistic sympathizers. Eslanda Goode Robeson used her testimony as a platform to speak out against American hypocrisy and injustice.

Charles Allen Jr.

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6-8 9-12

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Civil Rights Movement

July 6, 2022

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Issue 32, Fall 2007

We Must Persevere

Mother and daughter hold Newspaper with headline "High Court Bans Segregation In Public Schools"

Recently, the Supreme Court rendered a decision that makes school integration far more difficult. Civil rights leader Julian Bond responds.

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Rights & Activism

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Expert Q&A

Expert Q&A: Ages 2-5

July 29, 2009

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Issue 46, Spring 2014

Seeing the Whole Child

Learn how principal Susan Weinman embraces the whole child.

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Issue 6, Fall 2024

Dialogue Across Difference

Group of diverse people observing and discussing art representing justice issues.

Dialogue skills can develop foundational capacity for civic engagement and collective action to strengthen our democracy. The heart of dialogue is not in speaking to convince but rather in active listening and questioning to understand one another.

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H. Roy Kaplan

Kaplan teaches in the Africana Studies Department at the University of South Florida, Tampa. He was the Executive Director of the National Conference of Christians and Jews for Tampa Bay and served as an advisor to President Clinton’s race relations task force. In 1998, he received a National Hero of Education Award from the U.S. Department of Education for his multicultural work in Florida schools. His most recent book is The Myth of Post-Racial America.

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