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School Is No Place for Class(ism)
The language that educators use to address students can maintain and reinforce class structures and classist attitudes. The antidote? Anti-classist language.
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Five Questions for Stephanie Jones
In this Q&A, Stephanie Jones—a professor of educational theory and practice—answers questions about how socioeconomic class manifests in schools, class-sensitive pedagogy and more.
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The Danger of a Single Story
This history teacher uses Chimamanda Adichie’s TED Talk, “The Danger of a Single Story,” to foster his middle school students’ understanding of the relationship between narrative and power.
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Separate Is Not Equal
These two images depict segregated classrooms before the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
September 3, 2015
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Oyster Shucking: Dunbar, Louisiana
This 1911 photograph shows a four-year-old girl working alongside her mother shucking oysters in a Dunbar, Louisiana, cannery.
September 3, 2015
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MLK Dream Update
This political cartoon by Pat Bagley illustrates how income inequality can be viewed as the next chapter of Martin Luther King’s struggle.
September 3, 2015
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Four Freedoms
In his 1941 State of the Union Address, President Franklin D. Roosevelt outlined four fundamental human freedoms—the freedom of speech, of worship, from want, and from fear—for the United States and the rest of the world.
June 10, 2015
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Girls, Interrupted
The fastest-growing group of young people in the juvenile justice system is also the least talked about.
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Reflecting on the "American Dream"
What do we mean by the “American Dream”? This educator has some ideas for meaningfully engaging students with this topic.
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The Communist Manifesto
This excerpt from the first chapter of The Communist Manifesto establishes the dichotomy between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, which is merely a new relationship of oppressor vs. oppressed in the history of class struggles, as Marx and Engels argue that all societies have had these kinds of contending classes.
January 5, 2015