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From a Long Shot to a Mix Model School
Think Mix It Up can’t work at your school? This counselor at a school for students with a variety of special needs says it can.
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Building Connections Across Communities
In recognizing a meaningful moment with educators, LFJ Associate Director for Learning in Schools, Sarah-SoonLing Blackburn, Ed.D., explains how “This work is more sustainable when we share it with others.”
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The Hierarchy of Hate in School
Whether looking at news media reports or reading educator stories, it’s clear that hate and bias are national, not regional, issues. We saw both media and educator reports from all 50 states and Washington, D.C., in 2018
April 23, 2019
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Tips For Adult Allies
Sometimes, even the best intentions can discourage youth activists. Here's a list of ways you can help, not hinder, young people.
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It’s Still Good to Talk About Race
Recently, I was in a public place with a friend when I saw a woman wearing a very creative, flamboyant outfit. Knowing that my friend would be interested, I discreetly whispered to her to look at the woman in the
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Building a Community of Upstanders
A Mix Model School coordinator explains why her school participates in Mix It Up at Lunch Day and how she extended it beyond one day with an in-depth social experiment.
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Close and Critical Reading
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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Informational
The Communist Manifesto
This excerpt from the first chapter of The Communist Manifesto establishes the dichotomy between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, which is merely a new relationship of oppressor vs. oppressed in the history of class struggles, as Marx and Engels argue that all societies have had these kinds of contending classes.
January 5, 2015
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‘Give Bigotry No Sanction’
Facing History and Ourselves offers lessons that illustrate the freedom our Founders envisioned.
