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Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

The novel's main character, Joey, is introduced in this excerpt. Joey is full of spunk, but he also has trouble focusing and controlling all of his urges—which sometimes leads him to make bad choices.

Jack Gantos

Grade Level

3-5 6-8

Topic

Ability

July 5, 2014

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Literature

Life in the Iron Mills

This short story—acclaimed as one of the earliest examples of American realism—paints a bleak picture of industrial workers' lives in the mid-1800s.

Rebecca Harding Davis

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Class

Subject

History

July 7, 2014

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Separate Is Not Equal

These two images depict segregated classrooms before the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

Jack Delano

Grade Level

K-2 3-5 6-8 9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Class

Subject

Civics

History

Economics

September 3, 2015

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StoryCorps: We Were Caught

“The only way that I could see out of that situation was to take my life.”

Rob Littlefield

Grade Level

3-5 6-8

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

July 8, 2014

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Literature

We Live By What We See at Night

In this poem, the speaker addresses his father, recalling for him the lush Puerto Rican landscape that he grew up in. Now, this green can be seen only in his father's dreams.

Martin Espada

Grade Level

3-5 6-8

Topic

Immigration

Subject

Geography

July 3, 2014

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Sikh Eyechart for America

Text in the shape of an eye chart. Text starts large at the top and gets smaller. The last line reads, "I am a sikh walking the path of compassion hoping to find the light in our hearts that binds us all" in tiny letters. The cartoon's caption reads, "You must have perfect eyesight to be able to read the last line."

This cartoon eye chart tests for perfect vision, which sees beyond stereotypes and bias and encourages a lens of compassion.

Vishavjit Singh

Grade Level

K-2 3-5 6-8 9-12

Topic

Religion

November 18, 2014

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Loretta J. Ross

Loretta J. Ross is a Visiting Professor of Practice in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University teaching "Reproductive Justice Theory and Practice" and "Race and Culture in the U.S." for the 2018-2019 academic year. Previously, she was a Visiting Professor at Hampshire College in Women's Studies for the 2017-2018 academic year teaching "White Supremacy in the Age of Trump." She was a co-founder and the National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective from 2005-2012, a network founded in 1997 of women of color and allied organizations

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February 16, 2018

Teaching Social Justice in Elementary Music Class

With 40 minutes—or fewer—to spend with students each week, this elementary music teacher struggled to teach meaningful content. Then she began asking herself, "Who do I want my students to be when they leave my classroom?"

Topic

Rights & Activism

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October 10, 2019

Support LGBTQ Students and Educators as Our Rights Are Decided

Two people holding hands in front of a rainbow flag.

As the Supreme Court hears cases to decide whether federal law protects LGBTQ people from employment discrimination, one queer educator explains how his colleagues can be accomplices in the fight for LGBTQ civil rights.

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

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Text-Dependent Questions for “Mass Incarceration as a Form of Racialized Social Control”

These Text-Dependent Questions accompany “Mass Incarceration as a Form of Racialized Social Control.”

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Class Rights & Activism

Subject

Social Studies

Civics

History

July 18, 2017

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