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What We’re Reading This Week: August 17, 2018
A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.
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Change Starts Here (With Me): Day of Action Toolkit
This Day of Action Toolkit engages young people in the movement for justice to understand nonviolent direct action and participate in action for change in their communities.
February 23, 2025
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Teaching Hard History Podcast Series
Host Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Ph.D., brings us the hard history of the United States from slavery through the Jim Crow era and the Civil Rights Movement — with relevance to today’s issues.
January 30, 2018
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The Election, One Year Later: Stories From Anthropologists of Education
In the fall of 2016 and spring of 2017, these four anthropologists observed how students and educators responded to the presidential election. This winter, they followed up to see what had changed in the last year.
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Feelings About Being Placed in an “Assembly Center”: Masao Watanabe
“Masao Watanabe grew up in Seattle, Washington, and during the war was initially sent to the 'assembly center' at the fairgrounds in Puyallup, Washington. In this video clip, he talks about his initial reactions upon arrival.”
February 5, 2019
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Letter to Reverend Samson Occum (1774)
Wheatley’s letter explains her reasoning for emancipation using the rhetoric of the American Revolution and Biblical references.
January 5, 2018
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What’s a Sanctuary City Anyway?
The news has been abuzz with the term sanctuary city since President Trump issued an executive order on the matter. Attorney Naomi Tsu, who directs the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Immigrant Justice Project, explains exactly what sanctuary cities are.
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Toolkit for A Letter to My Teenage Self
Editor’s note: The author of this essay prefers the pronoun they. In a poignant letter to their teenage self, Jey Ehrenhalt—a transgender educator and advocate—recalls jarring and painful experiences of their youth and describes how many schools urgently need to become more welcoming and supportive places for transgender students.
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Authors of Their Own Stories
When these students wanted to see themselves in the books they read, their educators helped them do something about it.
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What is a Hate Crime?
This lesson leads students to analyze the nature of hate and explore legislation that addresses hate crimes.
July 11, 2017