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Issue 52, Spring 2016

Toolkit for "Closed for Business"

This toolkit distills information from “Closed for Business” into nine questions (to ask and answer) about school closures. Integrate these questions into your next discussion about education reform.

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Literature

A Place Where Sunflowers Grow

Mari and her family have been sent to an internment camp in Utah. She does not understand what they have done to deserve their internment and longs for her backyard in California where she used to grow sunflowers.

Amy Lee-Tai and Felicia Hoshino (illustrator)

Grade Level

3-5

Subject

History

April 7, 2016

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Informational

Testimony Before the Credentials Committee, Democratic National Convention

In this transcript, Fanny Lou Hamer describes the way in which she was forced to leave the plantation where she worked as as sharecropper for 18 years, was arrested and was beaten--all on account of trying to register to vote.

Fannie Lou Hamer

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Class Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

Economics

July 3, 2014

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Issue 39, Spring 2011

Planting Seeds, Growing Diversity

Illustration of a young girl or woman reaching for the moon

STEM classes have long been dominated by white males. Here are ways to make these fields more attractive to girls and students of color.

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

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Multimedia

Family Restaurant

In this film, the debates surrounding same-sex marriage are illustrated when a ketchup bottle wants to be with a mustard bottle. Picky, the toothpick dispenser, resists such an idea because it flies in the face of tradition.

Andrea James

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

July 8, 2014

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August 10, 2018