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December 28, 2017

Starting With Ourselves: Preparing for Tough Classroom Conversations

This school administrator offers recommendations for setting up courageous conversations in the new year, with discussions among colleagues as the first step.

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Experiment in Fairness

Bayard Rustin was an African American leader who worked for the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) in the 1940s and 1950s for equal rights for all Americans using nonviolence. In this story, he writes about the struggle for an African American man to order a simple hamburger at a restaurant in the Midwest.

Bayard Rustin

Grade Level

6-8

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Class

Subject

Civics

History

Economics

July 16, 2018

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October 30, 2017

What’s New With Teaching Tolerance’s Educator Grants?

Learn about a few of the initiatives we’ve funded this year and how you can apply for a chance to get funding for your own project!

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Issue 9, Spring 1996

Class Action

Students learn rights and responsibilities through law-related education.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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March 21, 2017

A Teacher’s Letter to President Trump

This elementary school teacher hopes that the president can visit her school to see and learn about a different strategy for keeping our children safe.

Topic

Bullying & Bias

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Issue 45, Fall 2013

Twice the Distance

Teaching Tolerance illustration of student long and difficulty path to college on top of a montain

First-In-Family Immigrant Students Face a Double Challenge When Applying to Colleges.

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Immigration

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The Fire Horse Girl

In this excerpt, the narrator, a young Chinese girl, poses as a boy with forged papers, trying to gain entry into the United States. When she realizes the American immigration agents are checking identity papers at the dock, she fights past them and runs for her life.

Kay Honeyman

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Immigration

Subject

Civics

History

July 7, 2014

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Change for the Better: I dare to dream in NYC

In this essay, Nhi relates her experience of moving to the United States from Vietnam when she was in high school. Her story illustrates the value of perseverance and “putting yourself out there.”

Nhi Tong

Grade Level

3-5

Topic

Immigration

December 22, 2015

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Issue 15, Spring 1999

Follow the Stream

Schools foster a sense of belonging and achievement in the nomadic lives of migrant students.

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Immigration

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Issue 9, Spring 1996

Summer Vocation

Teacher institutes offer tolerance education.

Topic

Bullying & Bias

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