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Supporting Student Action
Educators play a valuable role as adult allies to youth organizing for social justice.
May 23, 2023
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A Second Revolution
This piece is to accompany the Teaching Tolerance article "Getting the Civil War Right." Some historians have called the period of Reconstruction that followed the Civil War the "second American Revolution" and the 13th
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Believing Change Is Possible
Before Ayesha al-Shabazz could become a 7-year-old's superhero, she had to make a very human connection.
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"Mr. D, Don't Let Them Take Our School"
An interview with Principal Frank DeAngelis of Columbine High School.
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"Hunger Would Be Creation": Neurodiverse Literature in the Classroom
What can teaching neurodiverse texts do for people with and without cognitive disabilities? We’ve just scratched the surface of possibility.
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The Journal of a Slaver
Newton’s journal depicts the inhumane treatment of enslaved people by their captors on the Middle Passage.
January 4, 2018
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“Cornerstone” Speech
In this speech, Alexander H. Stephens justifies the Confederacy’s secession, arguing that the “cornerstone” of the Confederacy is the maintenance of the institution of slavery and the belief in the inferiority of African Americans.
January 6, 2018
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An Act to Suppress Insurrection, to Punish Treason and Rebellion, to Seize and Confiscate the Property of Rebels, and for Other Purposes
Congress asserts the federal government’s right to seize all property of individuals participating in or aiding the insurrection against the U.S. government.
January 9, 2018
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School Vouchers and the Efforts to Undermine Public Education
Vouchers are part of a broader effort to dismantle public schools, moving public taxpayer funds into private for-profit institutions. This is the third of three articles on public schools as a common good, which explore the possibilities and threats to public education.