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Digging Deep Into the Social Justice Standards: Justice
Help students recognize both justice and injustice so they can celebrate justice and also call out injustice when they see it.
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Columbine Timeline
Spring & Summer 1999 April 20 Columbine High School students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shoot and kill 12 students and one teacher before turning the guns on themselves. Twenty-three are injured. The students killed
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Tomorrow Night
After planning for a long time, an enslaved family risks everything to live together and be free.
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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.
July 7, 2014
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Q&A: Native Knowledge 360°
The same limited stories about American Indians persist in textbooks. The National Museum of the American Indian’s new program is looking to change that.
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After the Silence, We Need Strong Voices
Scattered across the cinderblocks of our middle school walls are some new faces, photographs of kids who have been silenced. Lee Simpson on Oct. 10, 2008. Scotty Weaver on July 22, 2004. Lawrence King on Feb. 12, 2008. Carl Walker-Hoover on April 9, 2009. All silent. They are dead.
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Summer Moments of 2018
If you didn't have a chance to stay current on The Moment this summer, don't worry—we've gathered every edition together in one place!
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Be Your Own Historian
Dr. Timothy McCarthy talks through the history of Reconstruction and why it’s more important than ever to get it right.
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African
This excerpt gives a first-person account of Equiano’s forced transatlantic voyage, including being brought on board, the horrors of being on deck and being sold in the yard once the ship reached land.
July 29, 2016
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What We’re Reading This Week: February 24
A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.