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September 3, 2010

Focus on the Family Goes After LGBT Students

For the last few days, an “educational analyst” for Focus on the Family has been getting a lot of press. She’s been suggesting that anti-bullying efforts that draw attention to the harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students are part of a “gay agenda” to “sneak homosexuality lessons into classrooms.”

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Bullying & Bias Gender & Sexual Identity

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April 26, 2017

Do You Teach About Ideological Diversity?

Student standing in front of classroom full of fellow students as they present something from a sheet of paper.

Bringing diverse political viewpoints into the classroom is vital in the polarized, echo-chambered world our students inhabit.

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January 31, 2017

Executive Orders and Checks and Balances

Looking for straightforward information about executive orders to share with your students? Teaching Tolerance Director Maureen Costello breaks it down.

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March 1, 2017

Learning How to Know in 2017

How do your students learn how to know? And what does your teaching look like in the face of a devaluing of shared truth, deepening political polarization and the mainstreaming of intolerance?

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March 15, 2017

A Classroom Discussion About the Media, Trust and Knowledge

Encouraging students to think through problems in the contemporary media landscape can help them become more active, open-minded knowledge-seekers.

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Issue 50, Summer 2015

Sex? Sexual Orientation? Gender Identity? Gender Expression?

Illustration of young students of various sexual orientations and gender identities

Knowing the difference can make all the difference to students who do not conform to binary norms.

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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December 2, 2015

Five Steps for Starting a Human Rights Club

A leading scholar on human rights education shares some try-tomorrow strategies for starting a human rights club at your high school. Pocket these ideas for Human Rights Day on December 10—and beyond.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 41, Spring 2012

Overcoming Cultural Gaps and Digital Divides

Teacher-librarian Amy Hamrick found out the hard way why it’s important to learn about students’ many cultures.

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Issue 27, Spring 2005

Witness

What happens when the role of guest and substitute teachers is complicated through witnessing racism, sexism, prejudice or other mistreatment?

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Rights & Activism

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Our Humanity Is Bound Together: Discussing the Holocaust

International Holocaust Remembrance Day is commemorated on January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1945. We honor the memory of the 6 million Jews and the millions of Roma, Sinti, Slavs, disabled persons, LGBTQ+ individuals, political dissidents and others who were murdered in the Holocaust. And we encourage learning from the survivors as we reflect on the significance of this history.

Acclaimed Documentary ‘One Survivor Remembers’ Urges All to Never Forget
One Survivor Remembers
‘Hope, Despair and Memory’

January 22, 2024

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