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Children are susceptible to superficial notions of beauty, but this teacher believes the real purpose of education is to give them a different message.

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Bullying & Bias

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Issue 51, Fall 2015

A Message From Our Director

Teaching Tolerance director Maureen Costello honors Julian Bond, a champion for voting rights.

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February 11, 2019

Is “Queer” OK To Say? Here’s Why We Use It

Queer: pejorative or reappropriated term? Yes and yes. But after members of our community questioned our use of the word, we want to explain.

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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Pam Watts writes, teaches and blogs about childhood adversity and children’s books. She is an expert in graphic novels, and first became interested in them when she studied them in the Writing for Children & Young Adults program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Since then, she has spoken about graphic novels to audiences of other writers and teachers, and she can often be found in dark corners scribbling her own. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Issue 31, Spring 2007

Then and Now

Will the Supreme Court outlaw purposeful integration of our schools?

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 16, Fall 1999

"Who's Jim Crow?"

A novice teacher confronts the dangers of forgetting.

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January 23, 2019

Five Ways to Avoid Whitewashing the Civil Rights Movement

Civil Rights Movement activists marching over the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

Going beyond feel-good narratives and examining context helps students learn a fuller and more accurate account of black history, including the often-oversimplified history of the civil rights movement.

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