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Issue 62, Summer 2019

Getting on the Right Track: How One School Stopped Tracking Students

Illustration of students being funneled down two different paths.

Tracking and ability grouping remain common practices in schools across the country despite research showing these practices contribute to segregated classes and opportunity gaps. In Walla Walla, Washington, a group of educators decided to try something different.

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Recognizing Caregivers as Funds of Knowledge

When educators take the time to build and sustain engagement with students’ caregivers, they illustrate social justice in action, showing students that their identities and living situations are valuable and worthy of understanding.

May 26, 2023

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November 3, 2015

Beyond the Bus

The 60th anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott is around the corner. Teach this critical history with our new publication and webinar.

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Rights & Activism

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February 11, 2014

Learning to Follow

Rethinking school emphasis on leadership can benefit kids who thrive behind the scenes.

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Bullying & Bias

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Issue 39, Spring 2011

Injustice on Our Plates

Our food supply depends on immigrant labor. Seven new Teaching Tolerance lessons bring this important message into the classroom.

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Immigration

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Harlem

When dreams and opportunities are pushed out of reach, only so many avenues offer recourse.

Langston Hughes

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6-8 9-12

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Class

July 5, 2014

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March 29, 2016

Inclusion Through Empathy

Simulations as professional development? This school administrator argues they can foster empathy for students with learning differences.

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Bullying & Bias

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Two Friends

This photograph depicts two children playing. One child has multiple disabilities and the other child does not.

Realistic Reflections

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K-2

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Ability

July 2, 2014

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Jozette Martinez

Jozette Martinez is a middle and high school business teacher in the heart of downtown Denver, Colorado, where she is an eighth-generation resident. She leads her eighth-grade AVID team and coaches her school’s Student Board of Education. She is also an adjunct professor in business and technology, a district trainer of teachers and a national teacher leader instructor through the Center for Teaching Quality, with a focus on social justice, equity and inclusion. She is a writer, guardian, sister, daughter and friend.

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March 15, 2010

Remember the (all-white) Alamo!

The Texas State Board of Education approved standards for U.S. history and other social studies courses Friday. That is national news because of Texas’ huge role in shaping textbooks across the country. Given that conservative Christians dominate the board, the result was predictable.

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