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An Evening With Michelle Alexander

Join Learning for Justice and Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’, to discuss her timely book and suggestions to introduce high school students to topics such as mass incarceration and racial caste.

Topic

Rights & Activism

September 23, 2014

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Let's Talk! Teaching Black Lives Matter

This sequel to Let's Talk! Discussing Black Lives Matter in the Classroom reviews the education related policy demands within the Movement for Black Lives' platform: Invest-Divest and Community Control.

Topic

Rights & Activism

January 31, 2017

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June 22, 2017

Showing Up to Advocate for Education

This educator sees great value in meeting with legislators to advocate for education. Here are her suggestions for making it happen.

Topic

Rights & Activism

article

June 8, 2017

We Need the Lessons of Reconstruction

Now, more than ever, the teaching of Reconstruction needs to be a central component of history education in high school.

Topic

Rights & Activism

article

June 7, 2017

Will This Solve School Segregation in NYC Schools?

New York City Schools revealed its much-anticipated plan for increasing diversity and access in its public schools. But some critics say it doesn’t go far enough or name the true issue at hand.

Topic

Class Rights & Activism

article

June 5, 2017

Ally or Accomplice? The Language of Activism

A new use of the word accomplice pushed this educator to rethink her activist approaches inside and outside the classroom.

Topic

Rights & Activism

article

June 1, 2017

Proposed Medicaid Funding Cuts Could Devastate Special Education

The U.S. House’s proposed health care bill sends a clear message that special education mandates aren’t on its funding priority list.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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No Promised Land

“When Mormons settled in Missouri in the 1830s, local residents found Mormon beliefs and practices not simply strange, but wrong. … The Mormons, the Missouri governor declared, must be removed—if not by expulsion, then by extermination.”

Jim Carnes

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Religion Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

May 22, 2017

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In the City of Brotherly Love

“The Irish and the English share a long legacy of conflict.” And this conflict extended across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World as a wave of Catholic immigrants arrived in the United States in the 1820s.

Jim Carnes

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Religion Class Immigration Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

May 22, 2017

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Informational

Deaf Culture: Changes and Challenges

In his essay, Bacon provides some high-level insights into the past of America’s deaf, as well as the current culture and some potential challenges that lie ahead.

Paul Bacon

Grade Level

6-8

Topic

Ability Rights & Activism

Subject

History

May 22, 2017

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