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Help Ensure Immigrant Families Have What They Need
Recent rule changes prompted fearful immigrant parents and caregivers to disenroll eligible children from support services. Educators can help clear up the confusion.
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Part I: Creating Your Group
Before You Begin: The Planning Committee Getting the Right Folks and the Right Data to the Table Once you’ve decided to start a social justice reading group, it’s tempting to jump right into conversations with young
October 16, 2019
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And the Winners Are...
Meet the recipients of the 2018 Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Teaching.
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Veterans discover solace in service
“Marine Corporal Jeremy Dobbins returned to Dayton, Ohio, from duty in Afghanistan with an 80% disability rating and issues with anger. Trained in service to others, veterans often resist the idea that they themselves need help and they have difficulty with sharing their war experiences with family and friends. An oral history project at Wright State University is giving Jeremy and other young veterans a chance to help older veterans recover their stories of war, and to come to terms with their own.”
June 26, 2019
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DACA Is in the Supreme Court. How About Your Classroom?
On November 12, hearings begin for the Supreme Court cases that could decide the fate of DACA. It’s an opportunity for educators to start an important conversation.
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Fighting for Inclusive Schools
Activist Carol Lerner advocates for children’s rights in Florida to reclaim the public education narrative from groups with discriminatory agendas.
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Passages in the Life of a Slave Woman
In this short story, from the 1853 abolitionist collection Autographs for Freedom, Parker shares a heartbreaking tale that shows some of the damage enslavement inflicts on families.
December 15, 2017
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Rising to the Challenge
A Louisiana Children's Museum exhibit takes the "dis" out of disability.
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‘I Don’t Think I’m Biased’
‘Encounter experiences’ help pre-service and practicing teachers confront their attitudes about race and privilege.
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The New Deciders
“The New Deciders” examines the influence of voters from four demographic groups—black millennials, Arab Americans, Latino Evangelicals and Asian Americans. Viewers will meet political hopefuls, community leaders, activists and church members from Orange County, California, Cleveland, Ohio, Greensboro, North Carolina and Orlando, Florida, all of whom have the opportunity to move the political needle, locally and nationally.
September 2, 2016