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Little Rock 60 Years Later
Looking back and looking ahead at the struggle to end segregated education.
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Reimagining Digital Literacy Education To Save Ourselves
Misinformation and online hate are crisis-level threats to democracy and liberation movements. Digital literacy education must be among the solutions.
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What We're Reading
Learning for Justice loves to read! Check out a few of our favorite books for diverse readers and educators!
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Learning to Save Ourselves
When a book characterizes problematic “white savior” tropes, how can it be used to effectively question those concepts with students?
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The Subscribed Classroom: Using Podcasts to Teach About Social Justice
More and more educators are turning to podcasts to bring new ideas, arguments and voices into their classrooms.
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An Educator Workshop With Black Children at the Center
An executive director of educational equity explains how her district planned a workshop for Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action—and how you can, too.
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Black Visibility Matters: The Inconvenient Truths of Bias and Erasure
Racial stereotypes and myths persist only with our continuous active consent—in the stories we teach and tell, and those we don’t. And the price we pay for this is monumental.
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A Remote Control for Learning
Artist, author and educator Gene Luen Yang speaks with LFJ (formerly Teaching Tolerance) about teaching, comics and the importance of diverse characters.
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Righting Old Wrongs
By the time the first few Mormon families moved back into Jackson County in 1867, old hostilities no longer threatened their freedom or safety. Nonetheless, Gov. Boggs' Extermination Order remained on the books more than a century, until a subsequent governor made this proclamation in 1976.
April 28, 2016
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Mendez v. Westminster
Preceding the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, Mendez v. Westminster challenged the segregation of Mexican Americans in schools in Orange County, California.
July 29, 2016