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Exclusion Is Unconstitutional
Acts of censorship in education perpetuated by a small group with concentrated power go against the principles outlined in the United States Constitution.
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Defusing School Violence
This lesson explores the complexities of a situation in which immigrant students attend a school that is plagued with racially motivated violence. Working in small groups and as a class, students will discuss possible solutions and outcomes and apply their problem-solving skills to issues affecting their own school and community.
April 1, 2010
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Analyzing the School Holiday Calendar
These activities ask students to engage with the question of what an equitable school calendar looks like and how to make their own school calendar more inclusive.
May 1, 2017
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Literature
A Place Where Sunflowers Grow
Mari and her family have been sent to an internment camp in Utah. She does not understand what they have done to deserve their internment and longs for her backyard in California where she used to grow sunflowers.
April 7, 2016
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I fit the description...
In this blog post, Steve Locke—a college professor of 13 years—details being wrongfully detained by the police while walking to get lunch all because they believed he matched a description.
April 28, 2016
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Teaching Tolerance Interview With John Lewis
In the graphic novel March, Congressman John Lewis documents his experiences as a young civil rights activist. Hear him describe his first arrest employing a nonviolent resistance strategy, as captured in the book.
June 20, 2016
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The Child's Defender
In this interview, Marian Wright Edelman expresses the importance of each American sending children “signals of fairness and tolerance” and helping to give them “a life that transcends boundaries of race, class, gender and other differences.”
June 20, 2016
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Una Vida de Esperanza
In this interview, Luis Rodriguez describes how the systemic demoralization he faced in school and society at a young age drove him to join a street gang and how writing his book, Always Running, was an attempt to call his son and other young people in similar situations to change their lives.
June 20, 2016
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When Loud Music Turned Deadly
This op-doc about the murder of Jordan Davis is compiled from home videos, interviews with Davis’ father and footage of Michael Dunn, the man who murdered Davis. The video includes Davis’ father speaking about his young son, as well as Dunn describing the events leading up to the murder.
August 19, 2016
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I Am the Blood of the Conqueror; I Am the Blood of the Conquered
In this blog post, the author details the internal struggle she feels when coming to terms with the bloody heritage she shares with conquistadors like Christopher Columbus and the pride she takes in remembering, embracing and living out her cultural history.
August 22, 2016