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Names Do Matter
The start of the school year is an important time to remember that names have meaning—whether they belong to monuments, mountains or to your own students.
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Julia Moves to the United States
Sean McCollum gives an account of writer Julia Alvarez's move to the United States from the Dominican Republic as a young girl. Although Alvarez struggled to fit in in this unfamiliar place, she finally found a comfortable niche in her writing.
July 9, 2014
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True Pictures
The Pinkney's offer children new ways to see -- and read about -- themselves.
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A Garden of Honor
Latino students in East L.A. plant a tribute to Japanese Americans.
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Agree to (Respectfully) Disagree
How to teach students to respectfully engage with peers of differing religious belief systems.
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Confronting Students’ Islamophobia
What do you do when anti-bias teaching strategies are derailed by real, in-the-moment fears? See how one educator responded to Islamophobia in her classroom.
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Slavery as a Form of Racialized Social Control
How did racial hierarchy adapt and persist after Emancipation? Throughout its history, the United States has been structured by a racial caste system. From slavery to Jim Crow to mass incarceration, these forms of racialized social control reinvented themselves to meet the needs of the dominant social class according to the constraints of each era.
October 13, 2014
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Mass Incarceration as a Form of Racialized Social Control
What is the “new Jim Crow”? Throughout its history, the United States has been structured by a racial caste system. From slavery to Jim Crow to mass incarceration, these forms of racialized social control reinvented themselves to meet the needs of the dominant social class according to the constraints of each era.
October 13, 2014
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Recognizing and Addressing Colorism in Schools
This educator and researcher illustrates what colorism looks like in schools—and how to counter it.