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Why We Need Black History Month
Analyzing and celebrating Black history helps students think critically about present-day social issues.
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What We're Reading
Our book reviews can help you keep your practice fresh and informed.
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Anti-Immigrant
Animus toward people perceived to be immigrants led to a significant amount of harassment in schools; about 18 percent of the incidents that educators reported were directed toward people seen as “foreign.” This category
May 1, 2019
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Classroom Simulations: Proceed With Caution
Some educators think these widely-used teaching activities may do as much harm as good — at least in anti-bias learning.
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Is Freedom Safe?
A First Amendment project challenges schools to take liberties seriously.
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Teach This: Voter Fraud and Voter Suppression
Use these excerpts from ‘One Person, No Vote: How Not All Voters Are Treated Equally’ to help students identify claims, recognize evidence and evaluate the argument that charges of voter fraud can be a form of voter suppression.
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Advocating for Teaching Honest History: What Educators Can Do
Young people deserve to learn honest history—history that is accurate, comprehensive and inclusive of perspectives beyond traditional, dominant narratives. Our newest resource guide, Advocating for Teaching Honest History: What Educators Can Do, offers concrete tools for educators seeking to ensure the right of future generations to an accurate accounting of our nation’s history.
- Advocating for Teaching Honest History: What Educators Can Do
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- Teaching Hard History: American Slavery
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The Civil Rights Movement: 10 Key Concepts
These 10 key concepts and main points encourage us to think critically about the complexities of history as we learn about and from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and ’60s.
August 24, 2024
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Diverse Perspectives
TT Educator Grants support social justice work at the classroom, school and district levels. Read about how one teacher used a TT grant to fund an oral storytelling project to promote positive identity and diverse cultural perspectives.
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Toolkit for “The School-to-Prison Pipeline”
The school-to-prison pipeline represents an intersection of complex issues, including race, class, education and the American justice system. Learn more by exploring the following research. Bibliography Bureau of Justice