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Inclusion of Community Wisdom

Partnerships with community organizations can help extend classroom activities, provide additional support for students’ needs and add new perspectives to teaching material—all while sending the message that communities are valuable learning resources.

May 26, 2023

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June 28, 2017

An Emmett Till Sign Was Erased—So Students Stepped in to Honor His Memory

The story of Emmett Till, in part, represents a fight against erasure and mistruths. Recently, a group of students joined that fight.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 2, Spring 2022

Advice From the Experts

LFJ answers your tough questions.

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Centering Black Girls in School Safety

School hardening policies—such as the presence of police and security, metal detectors, and harsh discipline codes—contribute to a criminalization culture in schools and students being pushed out of classrooms and into the school-to-prison pipeline. For Black girls, this criminalization culture causes serious additional harms.

Keep Her Safe: Centering Black Girls in School Safety
What Is the School-to-Prison Pipeline, and How Do We Dismantle It?
You Are Welcome Here

May 6, 2024

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Issue 59, Summer 2018

Toolkit for ‘The Opioid Crisis’ and Trauma-Sensitive Practices

Students who experience trauma often exhibit behaviors we associate with defiance, indifference or attention-deficit disorders. This toolkit and additional resources can help us overcome those assumptions and respond to such behaviors in trauma-sensitive ways.

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Issue 4, Spring 2023

A Refuge for LGBTQ+ Young People

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Student-run Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) clubs are a federally protected space for young people to survive and thrive in the increasingly hostile anti-LGBTQ+ climate in schools and across the country.

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Issue 66, Spring 2021

Digging Deep Into the Social Justice Standards: Action

In this conclusion to a four-part series exploring the four domains of LFJ’s Social Justice Standards, we take a deep dive into action.

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January 30, 2018

Florida’s “Hope Scholarship” Passes the Buck on Stopping Bullying

On January 22, a senate panel in Florida approved a bill that would offer vouchers to targets of bullying so they can transfer to a private school. No matter the bill’s intentions, it harms rather than helps children.

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Bullying & Bias

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January 22, 2024

Acclaimed Documentary ‘One Survivor Remembers’ Urges All to Never Forget

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Survivor testimony provides a crucial way to learn about the Holocaust, understand the context, history and diversity of Jewish people, and address antisemitism in the world today.

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Issue 2, Spring 2022

Ask, Investigate and Advocate

Nefertari Yancie, Ph.D., credits her family’s commitment to asking courageous questions, seeking answers and taking action as the impetus for her career in the classroom.

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