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Is My School Racist?
Institutional racism can be hard to spot. Try our strategies for sniffing it out.
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Islamophobia Undermines Religious Freedom
If you don’t teach your students about Islamophobia, someone else will. These resources can help you set the record straight about a major religion that’s currently under attack.
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Unlocking Opportunity
How can educators and school leaders close the achievement gap for African-American girls?
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The Danger of a Single Story
This history teacher uses Chimamanda Adichie’s TED Talk, “The Danger of a Single Story,” to foster his middle school students’ understanding of the relationship between narrative and power.
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Jim Crow Is Watching
In this essay, the author describes the ways in which the Civil War and 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments guaranteed African Americans certain rights, but how those rights were quickly reversed due to intimidation and the Jim Crow system.
April 27, 2016
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Race Riots
In this essay, the author gives a short history of race riots, showing how they were originally organized by whites in an effort to show dominance over African Americans, particularly in the South.
June 20, 2016
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Advice From the Experts
TT answers your tough questions. This time, advice for making sure out-of-state field trips are inclusive of immigrant students and families.
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Do Something
Inventing a Better World
Students invent a product or process that solves a social problem discussed in the central text.
July 13, 2014
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Responding to the Read-Aloud Text
Challenge the Text
Challenge the Text helps students ask and answer their own text-dependent questions by taking multiple perspectives and uncovering assumptions and biases within the text.
July 19, 2014
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A Message From Our Director
TT director Maureen Costello encourages educators to raise students ready to address injustice.