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In this lesson, students will work in pairs and use expert reading strategies to analyze the Court’s ruling in Hernandez v. Texas. After participating in a carousel discussion, students will write a three-minute paper describing how the United States would be different if the Court had reached an alternate conclusion.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Subject

Reading & Language Arts

Social Studies

Civics

ELL / ESL

September 14, 2009

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Issue 55, Spring 2017

“Conversations Aren’t Enough”

Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones tells the hard truth about why so many students still attend segregated schools.

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Issue 42, Fall 2012

Confronting White Privilege

Illustration of a student walking upside down

Many affluent students are oblivious to issues of race and class. Here are two teaching strategies designed to open their eyes.

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Felicia Graham

Felicia Graham (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Social Science & Comparative Education at UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. At UCLA her teaching and scholarship focus on youth civic engagement, global media, and decolonizing epistemologies of the global south. Guided by Chicana feminist theory, her current research engages youth in a political and economic critique of media to become advocates for culturally, historically, and politically responsive education based on human dignity, earthly respect, and rooted in the practice of love. Felicia is a student fellow for the

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July 7, 2009