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Treasure Chest for Change
It is a challenge to help students to learn not only about history but also from it.
January 4, 2011
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Ban? No, Teach the Topics.
Gender, sexuality and religion are common themes in challenged books of 2015. Rather than effectively ban these topics from the classroom, TT recommends teaching about them and offers student texts to do so.
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Time to End the Game
When it comes to the damage inflicted by racist mascots and sports posturing, apologies are not enough.
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A Girl and a Word
Rosa Marcellino didn’t like being labeled “mentally retarded,” so she decided to let important people know.
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Mass Incarceration as a Form of Racialized Social Control
What is the “new Jim Crow”? Throughout its history, the United States has been structured by a racial caste system. From slavery to Jim Crow to mass incarceration, these forms of racialized social control reinvented themselves to meet the needs of the dominant social class according to the constraints of each era.
October 13, 2014
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Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline
School policies that include harsh punishments, automatic out-of-class time and police involvement for discipline contribute to pushing young people out of classrooms and into the criminal legal system. These punitive practices disproportionately affect Black and other children of color, students with disabilities, young people experiencing poverty and children from communities that have been historically marginalized. Urgent change is needed to end school pushout and dismantle this school-to-prison pipeline.
- What Is the School-to-Prison Pipeline, and How Do We Dismantle It?
- Only Young Once: Dismantling Georgia’s Punitive Youth Incarceration System
- The Heart of Facilitation in Restorative Justice
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U.S. Constitution: Articles I, II, IV, V
These sections illustrate the ways in which the U.S. Constitution provided indirect protection of slavery.
January 5, 2018
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Letter to Reverend Samson Occum (1774)
Wheatley’s letter explains her reasoning for emancipation using the rhetoric of the American Revolution and Biblical references.
January 5, 2018
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Reading Together
How one group of parents created space for their children to learn, think and teach about social justice.
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Now-based Curriculum
Instead of discussing current events only on Tuesdays or only in response to traumatic events, let’s help students use the curriculum to understand and act against current injustices.