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They Must Always Look Outward
Trying to reconcile education and the world we currently inhabit has led one teacher to shift the focus of his teaching to nurturing active participants in a diverse democracy.
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The Election, One Year Later: Struggling With Critical Conversations at a Midwestern High School
In the fall of 2016, anthropologist Jia-Hui Stefanie Wong was observing students and educators at a high school when the presidential election took place. This winter, she followed up to see what had changed in the last year.
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Hate at School: January 2018
Last month, we tracked 64 school-based episodes of hate in 32 states—the most since October.
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“All Our Terrible and Beautiful History”: Teach American History as a Human Story
Professor David W. Blight, director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, explains why prevailing American historical narratives necessitate Teaching Tolerance's Teaching Hard History report and recommendations.
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Hate at School: March 2018
While student activism rightfully stole the headlines, we tracked 35 school-based episodes of hate and bias in 18 states during the month of March.
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The Election, One Year Later: Stories From Anthropologists of Education
In the fall of 2016 and spring of 2017, these four anthropologists observed how students and educators responded to the presidential election. This winter, they followed up to see what had changed in the last year.
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AP World History Is Worth Saving
Teachers are pushing back against proposed changes they say would reframe AP World History as Eurocentric. Teaching Tolerance stands with them.
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Why I’m Participating in the L.A. Teachers’ Strike
We caught up with Amanda Tooley, a fifth-grade teacher in the country’s second-largest school district, to find out why she’s striking and what she hopes for her students and community.
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Civil Rights History Project: Mary Jenkins
Mary Jenkins describes growing up in the Jim Crow era and frequently being told, “You can’t”—both by a mother terrified of what might happen to her daughter if she stepped out of her expected place, and by a system that had institutionalized segregation as a way of life.
February 25, 2019