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Simple Mix Idea Brings Fun, Laughter to Lunch

At first the idea sounded too simple to be anything worthwhile. Have students sit with someone new at lunch? How much effect could that really have? After years of perusing and using Teaching Tolerance’s other resources, I finally felt compelled to try to Mix It Up.
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Desired Things for a Better World

A number of years ago, I asked my ninth-grade English students to make a bucket list of at least three things they’d like to do before they die. Examples of what they wrote down include “riding a motorcycle,” “becoming a
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Sara Schmidt

Sara Schmidt is a writer, homeschooling mom, artist, wife and activist from the St. Louis area. Sara has taught in various capacities, from a European at-risk program and college support services to American Red Cross service corps. She writes for the Institute for Democratic Education in America and is inspired by nonconformist teachers, guerrilla learning, free schools, peaceful revolution, living outside the box and above all, kids.
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The Color of Law: Developing the White Middle Class

This lesson is the third and final lesson of the series The Color of Law: The Role of Government in Shaping Racial Inequity. In this lesson, students examine policies that supported and cultivated the creation of the white middle class and the practices that excluded black and nonwhite people from economic development.
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9-12
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Class Rights & Activism
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Reading & Language Arts
Social Studies
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Economics
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Justice Action
October 10, 2019
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Acknowledgments

Teaching 'The New Jim Crow' Acknowledgments Teaching Tolerance Director Maureen Costello Design Director Russell Estes Senior Designer Valerie Downes Projects Leads Emily Chiariello June Cara Christian Maya Lindberg
July 6, 2017