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Pushed Out
Zero tolerance policies were supposed to end school violence. Instead, they’re pushing students out of school and into the justice system — and children of color are paying the highest price.
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Talk About Mental Illness Year-round—Not Just After a Mass Shooting
The days and weeks following a national tragedy shouldn’t be the only times we talk about mental health with students.
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Not Just a Joke: Understanding & Preventing Gender- & Sexuality-Based Bigotry
This report helps readers identify warning signs that a young person has become susceptible to hateful, male-supremacist ideologies, best practices for responding, and ways to build resilience against manipulation.
December 18, 2024
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Hate at School: May 2019
Racist yearbook photos and “promposals” gone wrong are among this month’s hate incidents that marked the end of the school year.
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Black History Month: Teaching the Complete History
Go beyond trauma and struggle to examine the liberation, civic engagement, creativity and intersecting identities of Black people during Black History Month.
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Welcome to Park Day School
A Bay Area teacher shares her independent school's commitment to community.
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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.”
May 22, 2017
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Hot Off the Presses!
Student journalists cover the front lines of social change.
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DREAM Act of 2011
Laura Vazquez, an analyst for the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), presented this statement to a Congressional subcommittee at the hearing “S. 952, DEVELOPMENT, RELIEF, AND EDUCATION FOR ALIEN MINORS (DREAM) ACT OF 2011” on June 28, 2011.
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