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In Search of Balance
Teaching Tolerance offers tools to help teachers and students get through the grueling and seemingly unrewarding weeks of mandated testing.
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Understanding Size Bias
A Conversation with Rebecca Puhl—this piece is a resource for the Teaching Tolerance article Weighing In
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
The U.N. General Assembly adopted the original version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. The intention was to safeguard the international community against atrocities such as occurred during World War II.
July 2, 2014
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Sexism in the Civil Rights Movement: A Discussion Guide
A closer examination of heroes in our culture.
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Everyone Has an Accent
A North Carolina professor advocates teaching respect for dialects.
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Toolkit for "Why Talk About Whiteness?"
This toolkit for “Why Talk About Whiteness?” offers nine steps to engage high school students in a guided viewing of The Whiteness Project. The Whiteness Project, an “interactive investigation into how Americans who identify as ‘white’ experience their ethnicity,” is available for free online.
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Executive Orders and Checks and Balances
Looking for straightforward information about executive orders to share with your students? Teaching Tolerance Director Maureen Costello breaks it down.
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Beyond 'Things Fall Apart': Texts for Young Adults
What comes to your students’ minds when they hear the word Africa? If it’s mostly civil war and famine, you’ll like the diversity of these recommended texts.
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Mass Incarceration as a Form of Racialized Social Control
What is the “new Jim Crow”? Throughout its history, the United States has been structured by a racial caste system. From slavery to Jim Crow to mass incarceration, these forms of racialized social control reinvented themselves to meet the needs of the dominant social class according to the constraints of each era.
October 13, 2014