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Issue 50, Summer 2015

Toolkit for Learning From the Inside

More than 60,000 youth are confined in 2,500 juvenile justice facilities in the United States every year. This toolkit provides a snapshot of effective practices used by educators who work in locked facilities—with application in other educational settings.

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Do Something

Tweeting for Change

Students organize and facilitate a live Twitter chat to raise awareness of an anti-bias theme or social justice issue and to encourage change related to this issue.

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6-8 9-12

February 25, 2016

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Jennifer L. Lieberman

Jennifer L. Lieberman is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Florida, and has taught classes to conventional and incarcerated students in subjects ranging from American literature and African-American literature to gender and women studies and the history of science, medicine, and technology. She was the Presidential Diversity and Inclusion Award winner and the Florida Blue Center for Ethics Fellow at her university in 2017, both for her work in ethics and social justice. Her book, Power Lines: Electricity in American Life and Letters, 1882-1952, is available from The MIT

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March 19, 2020

Teaching Through Coronavirus: What Educators Need Right Now

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We asked educators what they need, and we listened. We hope this message—and these resources—offer some help.

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Issue 66, Spring 2021

Toolkit for “Mathematics in Context: The Pedagogy of Liberation”

This toolkit will help educators consider how to “humanize math” using Learning for Justice’s Social Justice Standards. It provides opportunities for reflection and examples of real-world applications.

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Issue 28, Fall 2005

Talking Across Boundaries

Follow student activists as they Mix It Up at their schools.

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Bullying & Bias

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September 3, 2010

Focus on the Family Goes After LGBT Students

For the last few days, an “educational analyst” for Focus on the Family has been getting a lot of press. She’s been suggesting that anti-bullying efforts that draw attention to the harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students are part of a “gay agenda” to “sneak homosexuality lessons into classrooms.”

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Bullying & Bias Gender & Sexual Identity

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Issue 41, Spring 2012

Overcoming Cultural Gaps and Digital Divides

Teacher-librarian Amy Hamrick found out the hard way why it’s important to learn about students’ many cultures.

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April 26, 2017

Do You Teach About Ideological Diversity?

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Bringing diverse political viewpoints into the classroom is vital in the polarized, echo-chambered world our students inhabit.

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March 1, 2017

Learning How to Know in 2017

How do your students learn how to know? And what does your teaching look like in the face of a devaluing of shared truth, deepening political polarization and the mainstreaming of intolerance?

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