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Issue 58, Spring 2018

Liberated Roots

School and community gardens can be emancipatory spaces—if they’re built around culturally responsive practices. Get to know three gardening activists who have learned to ask the right questions—and listen to the answers.

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October 30, 2017

They Must Always Look Outward

Students Studying at Desk | Teaching Tolerance

Trying to reconcile education and the world we currently inhabit has led one teacher to shift the focus of his teaching to nurturing active participants in a diverse democracy.

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Class Rights & Activism

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Community Guidelines

Learning for Justice Community Guidelines Moderation Goals Learning for Justice offers opportunities for educators to comment on the content published by our staff and by other educators in the form of Learning Plans

February 23, 2018

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August 30, 2012

Who Will You Inspire Today?

Bill Gates said there would never have been a Microsoft were it not for his teachers, Fred Wright and Ann Stephens. I have to wonder if, at the time, they realized what influence they had. Was the year that they taught Gates one that stood out above the rest, or was it a school year in which they did what they always did—taught to their best ability?

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Bullying & Bias

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Homeowners Picket FHA Officials Over Broken-Down Homes, Unkept Promises, Philadelphia Tribune (June 24, 1972)

A newspaper article about the Federal Housing Administration’s failure to fund promised repairs to Black homeowners

Len Lear

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9-12

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Civil Rights Movement

July 7, 2022

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Why I’m A Racist

A white man writes about his journey to understanding his racial privilege and the “benefit of the doubt” that life has afforded him.

Jeff Cook

Grade Level

9-12

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Social Studies

December 5, 2017

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Mary McLeod Bethune

In this lesson, students will read an excerpt of an interview given by Mary McLeod Bethune and will learn that she founded the Daytona National and Industrial School for Negro Girls (now Bethune-Cookman College) in 1904. Through close reading, they will explore and discuss connections between events from Bethune’s life experiences and their own lives, and connections between past and current events.

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6-8 9-12

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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Reading & Language Arts

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History

May 17, 2012

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Issue 13, Spring 1998

An Unconditional Embrace

For education activist Bill Ayers, the secret of effective teaching is to see each child as one's own.

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Rights & Activism

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March 20, 2023

The Women’s March: Protest and Resistance

A photo of thousands of people in front of the Washington Monument during the 2017 Women's March

The 2017 Women’s March made a powerful statement for women’s rights and resistance to divisive rhetoric. The movement’s greater impact is its energizing of activists, especially young women, in the United States and around the world.

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Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

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Introduction to the Teacher’s Guide

Teaching 'The New Jim Crow' Introduction to the Teacher's Guide In many ways, this is a dream come true. I have long hoped that a set of materials would be created that would support high school teachers who want to

July 6, 2017

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