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Issue 42, Fall 2012

Toolkit for 'Struggling in Suburbia'

As this Teaching Tolerance story points out, the poor represent the fastest-growing segment in our nation’s suburbs. They are immigrants who choose to locate there and formerly middle-class families who have been hit by

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September 17, 2013

Welcome Home

For students living in instability, a safe classroom becomes a second home.

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May 16, 2013

The Double Standard of Coming Out

In sports, machismo and closeted sexuality prevail. And players courageous enough to talk about their sexual orientation are, sadly, not on equal footing.

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

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July 9, 2015

Planting Truthful Seeds About Native Americans

By not including contemporary Native peoples into any discussion of Native experiences, we are doing these populations and our students a huge disservice.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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Community Inquiry

Say Something

A comprehension strategy during which student take turns reading aloud to each other, stopping occasionally to comment on the text.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

CCSS

RL.6-12.1, RL.6-12.2, RI.6-12.1, RI.6-12.2, SL.6-12.1, SL.6-12.2, SL.6-12.6

July 13, 2014

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New Girl in School

This story follows a girl who befriends the first African American to attend High Point Central High School, as a result of desegregation. What begins as an unintended and awkward experience in the cafeteria, becomes a strong and admirable friendship.

Carol Passmore

Grade Level

3-5 6-8

Topic

Class Bullying & Bias

Subject

Civics

History

July 16, 2018

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March 20, 2018

Permission to Walk Out: They Didn’t Ask, I Didn’t Give It

This principal issued over 100 discipline referrals last week—and he couldn’t be more proud.

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April 2, 2018

Making King Real for Students Today

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | Flip Schulke/Corbis via Getty Images

On the anniversary of Dr. King's assassination, we encourage teachers to break through the simplistic King narrative and share his righteous anger at poverty and militarism.

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Rights & Activism

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Multimedia

Student Voices: Freddy Ochoa and Corina Torres

Freddy Ochoa interviews his aunt about her experience as a first-generation immigrant to America from a Mexican family.

Freddy Ochoa and Corina Torres

Grade Level

6-8

Topic

Class Immigration

Subject

Geography

September 28, 2018

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Literature

The Real Origins of Memorial Day

Juni teaches her friend Michael all she knows about the first Memorial Day—the day when thousands of black people marched to remember their loved ones who had died in the Civil War.

Jarah Botello

Grade Level

3-5

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

February 19, 2020

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