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This toolkit for “Segregation Forever?” provides an activity for students to use statistics and written analysis to express complex ideas about history.

A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.

Banning a book can go like this: An outraged parent complains about a book to the school librarian or principal. After a noisy debate, the school administrators decide that the book should be removed from circulation. Or, banning a book can go like this: A librarian receives a new book. Perhaps it shows LGBT issues or atheism in a sympathetic light. Perhaps it portrays civil rights struggles in a way that might offend some local sensibilities. Whatever the reason, she quietly puts the book in a back room. Then she politely discourages questions about it.

Primary students learn the value of questioning their social studies book.

Struggling with how to address the upcoming inauguration in your classroom? Consider teaching about inaugural history.

When 10-year-old Julia Alvarez immigrated to New York, she learned the power of words.

When a student directed an LGBT slur at a classmate, this teacher missed the teachable moment. He won’t let that happen again.