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Executive Orders and Checks and Balances
Looking for straightforward information about executive orders to share with your students? Teaching Tolerance Director Maureen Costello breaks it down.
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What Do I Say to Students About Immigration Orders?
Educators are fielding questions from students about recently issued executive orders on immigration, refugee resettlement and a U.S.-Mexico border wall. Here are some suggestions for how to best answer students.
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Iesha Evans
Protesting the death of Alton Sterling and the Baton Rough Police Department’s request for Black Lives Matter demonstrators to clear roadways, Iesha Evans stands in the middle of a street as two Louisiana state troopers, dressed in riot gear, approach to arrest her.
January 30, 2017
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What We’re Reading This Week: January 27
A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.
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For My Students, the Women’s March Is Just the Beginning
When this teacher saw how devastated her feminist student group was by the 2016 election, she decided to do something to make them proud. She decided to march.
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50,000+ Youth Report Spike in Bullying and Harassment
The Human Rights Campaign's post-election survey of more than 50,000 young people highlights the November election's damaging impact on youth.
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Teaching the Unteachable
How do you teach current events in a highly politicized climate in which facts have alternate versions and newspaper editors have worn out the thesaurus looking up synonyms for lie?
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Helping Students Develop Empathy Instead of Sympathy
When this literature teacher completes a book with her class and hears a student say, “Reading this makes me happy I am an American,” she flips the script.
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Be A Good Boy
In 1920, Tennessee lawmaker Harry Burn followed his mother’s advice on a controversial vote—and changed voting rights history.
January 23, 2017