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In this blog post, Steve Locke—a college professor of 13 years—details being wrongfully detained by the police while walking to get lunch all because they believed he matched a description.

Steve Locke

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9-12

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Rights & Activism

April 28, 2016

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Investigate

As an administrator, it is your responsibility to remain calm, firm and deliberate as you gather the facts surrounding a potential bias-based incident.

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Bullying & Bias

August 27, 2012

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Issue 52, Spring 2016

Advice From the Experts

TT answers your tough questions. This time, we talk “hidden curriculum” and responsive school discipline.

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Issue 56, Summer 2017

Why Teaching Black Lives Matter Matters | Part I

Boy walks past a memorial of candles and roses on the sidewalk on his way to school

All educators have the civic responsibility to learn and teach the basic history and tenets of this movement for racial justice.

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July 19, 2016

Magical Cloaks and Targets?

In the wake of more shootings, this white educator and father contemplates how he can undermine a system that makes his sons and him safer than their African-American counterparts.

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March 21, 2012

Will We Learn from Trayvon Martin’s Death?

The empty space left by the death of a young person seems somehow larger—perhaps because we sense not only the absence of who he was, but also of who he could have become. This emptiness can engulf an entire community, even a nation, when the death is unjust.

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Rights & Activism

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Northwest Community Organization pamphlet, 12th Street Detroit

In response to the 1967 Detroit Race Riots (which took place during the “Long, hot summer of 1967”) the Northwest Community Organization worked to address some of the underlying issues that persisted in urban areas, like residential segregation.

Northwest Community Organization

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6-8 9-12

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Civil Rights Movement Class

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Social Studies

History

July 18, 2022

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Street Justice

The distrust between the Jewish community and African-American community in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in the 1990s reached an all-time high when a runaway car struck two children.

Jim Carnes

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6-8

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Religion Immigration

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History

May 22, 2017

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June 9, 2025

School Vouchers and the Efforts to Undermine Public Education

School Vouchers - image of public school, parent and child and person with sign "Education is a civil right."

Vouchers are part of a broader effort to dismantle public schools, moving public taxpayer funds into private for-profit institutions. This is the third of three articles on public schools as a common good, which explore the possibilities and threats to public education.

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Keep Her Safe: Centering Black Girls in School Safety

[2024] This case study and report by NWLC and SPLC demonstrates how critical insights can come from centering Black girls in the school safety conversation.

May 1, 2024

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