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Maureen Costello

Maureen Costello, retired director of Teaching Tolerance, has been a teacher and educational leader for over 40 years. Before joining the Southern Poverty Law Center, Costello worked for Scholastic, Inc. and directed the Newsweek Education Program. She began her career as a history and economics teacher at Notre Dame Academy High School in Staten Island. Throughout her career, Costello has been committed to fostering the ideals of democracy and citizenship in young people. She is a graduate of the New School University and the New York University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. In
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Literature

Life in the Iron Mills

This short story—acclaimed as one of the earliest examples of American realism—paints a bleak picture of industrial workers' lives in the mid-1800s.
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Rebecca Harding Davis
Grade Level
9-12
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Class
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History
Social Justice Domain
Justice
July 7, 2014
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Literature

Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

The novel's main character, Joey, is introduced in this excerpt. Joey is full of spunk, but he also has trouble focusing and controlling all of his urges—which sometimes leads him to make bad choices.
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Jack Gantos
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3-5 6-8
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Ability
Social Justice Domain
Identity
July 5, 2014
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Why Can’t We Be (Digital) Friends?

While working on a project for class, a student of mine casually mentioned the names of some of my relatives. When I looked up in horror, he rattled off all of the towns in which I had ever lived. I was shaken. How did he get all this information about me? Simple. He had an app for that.
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Bullying & Bias
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Liz Ransom

Liz Ransom, M.A., teaches Spanish in Princeton, New Jersey. She spent three years as a volunteer in Chile and has been a consultant for the development of anti-racism curriculum.