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Time Spent Building Community Is Never Time Wasted
LFJ Deputy Director Hoyt Phillips offers insight into the significance of intentional and consistent relationship building—inside the classroom and beyond.
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Equity, Period.
Join the movement to destigmatize menstruation and make schools more accommodating for all students who experience it.
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When Bad Things Happen, Be a Helper
When it seems that tragedies are happening in rapid succession, we evoke a quote from educator and television host Fred Rogers of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. As a boy, his mother told him that when scary thing happen to “look for the helpers.”
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Keep on Mixing!
National Mix It Up at Lunch Day may be over, but focusing on social divisions in schools is still a priority.
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Humanity, Healing and Doing the Work
Honoring our collective humanity will result in an education system in which all children thrive.
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Heavy Topics, Strong Classrooms
Our democracy desperately needs diverse voices to engage in mature dialogue if we are to ever find compassionate solutions to our common problems. Schools must be where young people learn to do this.
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Speaking Up Without Tearing Down
A veteran human rights educator explains the value of teaching students to call each other in rather than out.
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Petition to the North Carolina General Assembly from Currituck County Citizens (1861)
The petitioners, who fear that the free black population of Currituck County will join with enslaved people in a revolt against the white people of the county, request that the North Carolina General Assembly to remove all free black people from the county. They suggest this can be done either by forcing them from their homes or by condemning them into slavery. The petitioners also advise the assembly to boost the number of enslavers in Currituck.
December 15, 2017
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Recognition
Since its founding in 1991, Learning for Justice—formerly Teaching Tolerance—has been recognized as a transformative force in education. Our materials have won two Oscars, an Emmy and scores of honors. Here is a sampling
June 28, 2017