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Issue 39, Spring 2011

Imagining the Lives of Others

Teaching Tolerance director Maureen Costello talks empathy as a means to move forward.

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Issue 39, Spring 2011

A Girl and a Word

Rosa Marcellino didn’t like being labeled “mentally retarded,” so she decided to let important people know.

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Ability

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November 29, 2010

Lasting Lessons from the Montgomery Bus Boycott

The time had come. It was Dec. 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on the Montgomery public bus. This act led to Parks’ arrest, ignited the Montgomery Bus Boycott and ushered in the new civil rights movement.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 42, Fall 2012

Toolkit for 'Meeting Mathew'

This Teaching Tolerance magazine piece leads readers through the process of planning and conducting a disclosure meeting as a way of helping students relate to a peer with a hidden disability. Before doing that, however

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June 24, 2014

Freedom Wasn’t Free in ’64—and It Isn’t Free Now

‘Freedom Summer,’ an American Experience film, highlights an overlooked but essential period in the civil rights movement.

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Rights & Activism

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Gillian Steinberg

Gillian teaches English at SAR High School in the Bronx. Previously, she was a tenured associate professor of English and director of writing at Yeshiva College in New York City. She has published books on Thomas Hardy and Philip Larkin, as well as articles on poetry, short fiction, composition and literature pedagogy, and issues of labor equity in higher education, among other topics. She serves as forum director for The Thomas Hardy Association.

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May 7, 2015

Finding Meaning in Class

What if students created academic experiences that fit their values?

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October 5, 2016

Civic Education in the Age of Clinton and Trump

For the first time in 34 years, this social studies teacher feels forced to not do his job when it comes to teaching the election.

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May 23, 2014

Is Silence Golden? Giving Students a Choice in Matters of Faith

Do moments of silence and the Pledge of Allegiance infringe on students’ rights? Tanenbaum and Teaching Tolerance revisit this and other important questions through a set of blog posts based on our ongoing webinar series Religious Diversity in the Classroom.

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Religion Rights & Activism

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May 4, 2015

Making “A Place in the Middle” in Every Classroom

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Dean Hamer shares how his documentary A Place in the Middle, co-directed with Joe Wilson, can help students see the value of inclusion, the power of cultural heritage and their ability to create a more positive school climate.

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Gender & Sexual Identity Bullying & Bias

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