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Selling Kids Short
Divisive fundraisers make schools unsafe for kids from lower socioeconomic backgrounds.
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Honest History Can Help Prepare Young People for Life’s Complexities
Learning the honest history of our nation helps us understand our diversity and strengthens us all as we work toward building on more solid national foundation of truth and justice. As we celebrate Native American Heritage Month, the Learning for Justice page offers resource to learn and teach about the diversity of Indigenous cultures and communities. To explore our historical complexity, the recent magazine article, “American Patriotic Songs: Context and Perspective,” helps us to confront the various perspectives that a single patriotic song can embody.
- American Patriotic Songs: Context and Perspective
- Celebrate Native American Heritage
- Celebrating African and Indigenous Cultures
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Community Inquiry
Four Perspectives
A strategy to introduce the anti-bias framework into group discussion and textual analysis. Students respond to and pose questions from the four anti-bias domains: identity, diversity, justice and action.
July 13, 2014
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Portfolio Activity for “Possession Obsession”
This activity is to accompany the Teaching Tolerance article "Possession Obsession."
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Hooray for LGBT Allies
After the Southern Poverty Law Center responded to a plea for help from students in Savannah, Tenn., we’re happy to report that students successfully wore pro-LGBT slogans at school last week without resistance and with mostly positive responses from classmates.
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Online Teaching Can Be Culturally Responsive
Amid school closures, online classes can offer new opportunities for culturally responsive teaching. Here’s what one educator is trying with her fifth grade students.
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“We Won’t Wear the Name”
At these three high schools, each named for Robert E. Lee, students led the way toward change.
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Dealing with depression -- through faith and acupuncture
“Esperanza is an undocumented Mexican immigrant in Compton, California. She suffers from fears and anxieties caused by her four previous deportations and her high-stress role as her family’s caregiver. Esperanza doesn’t see depression as a health problem. When she shares her struggles with a local priest, she discovers a network of support that ranges from her compadres to a free clinic.”
June 26, 2019
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Whose Renaissance Is It?
These middle-schoolers spent months exploring the bridges that connect their gentrifying community and the barriers that divide it.
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Rigoberta Menchú
Rigoberta Menchú has dedicated her life to fighting the injustices faced by the people of Guatemala and educating the world on the concept of indigenous people and fighting for their interests.
August 9, 2017