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Issue 36, Fall 2009

Know Your Audience, Find Your Power

"There’s nothing wrong with the way your grandparents talk,” my elementary school teachers used to say. “Standard English is different. Not better or worse. It’s just a way of talking that you need to know.”

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What Is the School-to-Prison Pipeline, and How Do We Dismantle It?

Urgent change is needed to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline. Together, families, educators and community members can advocate for and implement practices that prioritize mental health and well-being and do not push children out of schools.

November 27, 2023

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September 29, 2017

First, Denounce the Act

School leaders can learn a lot from Lt. General Jay Silveria’s response to a horrible incident at the Air Force Academy Prep School.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 65, Fall 2020

Understanding the Why

Maribel Valdez Gonzalez explains why project-based learning is key to engaging, authentic, equitable education.

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Judgement of the Supreme Court of the United States in Plessy v. Ferguson

In the matter of Plessy v. Ferguson, the United States Supreme Court upheld practices that perpetuated Jim Crow segregation, declaring that “separate but equal” accommodations were legal. Nearly 60 years later, the Court overturned the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.

Mr. Justice Brown and Mr. Justice Harlan

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9-12

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Civil Rights Movement Rights & Activism

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Civics

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March 3, 2016

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Issue 11, Spring 1997

Paddling Upstream

Catholic and Protestant youth in Northern Ireland embark on a brighter future.

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Issue 4, Spring 2023

Where I’m From

Lolita Bolden reflects on history and the love of community while sharing a poem.

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Autographs for Freedom

An anti-slavery poem by Harriet Beecher Stowe from 1852.

“Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Thirty-five other Eminent Writers.”

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6-8 9-12

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Slavery

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History

December 13, 2017

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August 2, 2017

Meet "Team Wildin"

Interview conducted by Matt Villano. There’s no telling what would have happened to Wildin Acosta if his classmates and teachers hadn’t mobilized on his behalf. While the adults at Riverside High School were critical in

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Immigration

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Issue 26, Fall 2004

Columbine Timeline

Spring & Summer 1999 April 20 Columbine High School students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shoot and kill 12 students and one teacher before turning the guns on themselves. Twenty-three are injured. The students killed

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Rights & Activism

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