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October 16, 2017

From Columbus to Charlottesville: An Urgent Call for Benevolence

This former high school history teacher now realizes that she failed her students by sticking to the subject matter and neglecting what’s most important about education. She’s worried her fellow educators might be failing too.

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March 31, 2010

Stand Up and Be Counted

An important date awaits in April, and it’s coming sooner than April 15.The Census Bureau has designated April 1 as "National Census Day," the date for mailing census forms to bureau offices. Households that don’t get their forms sent off by then will get a visit from a census taker.

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Rights & Activism

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April 12, 2016

Art as Resistance, Part 2

In this second blog of a two-part series, a high school English teacher in the Dominican Republic explains how her students’ exploration of social injustices materialized in an action project that no one involved will ever forget.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 45, Fall 2013

Toolkit for “Lessons of 1964: The Movement Continues”

1964 included a number of important civil rights events critical to the ongoing march for racial equality and justice. These resources can help take students back to this important year. 1964 Civil Rights Milestone

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Wangari Maathai

“In Kenya, a modern ‘Johnny Appleseed’ has initiated a successful program to counteract the alarming destruction of Africa’s forests.”

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9-12

Topic

Class Gender & Sexual Identity

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History

Geography

August 9, 2017

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Issue 35, Spring 2009

Lies Our Students Tell Themselves

Part of the 'Why I Teach' series

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 21, Spring 2002

Is Freedom Safe?

A First Amendment project challenges schools to take liberties seriously.

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Rights & Activism

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Female Identity and Gender Expectations

The four lessons in this unit explore different aspects of gender for today’s girls and women. Each lesson identifies barriers that limit girls’ and women’s opportunities and asks students to explore how those barriers can be dismantled.

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6-8 9-12

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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Reading & Language Arts

SEL

March 30, 2012

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February 2, 2015

Heritage Months: Hard to Handle?

Heritage months offer opportunities to model yearlong inclusive teaching practices.

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The 65th Anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott

December 5 marks the 65th anniversary of the start of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. It’s critical not to oversimplify or whitewash this watershed moment. These resources help students contextualize the boycott—and the civil rights movement at large—beyond Rosa Parks’ role, with a focus on women who were also instrumental in sparking change.

‘Browder v. Gayle’
Five Ways to Avoid Whitewashing the Civil Rights Movement

December 4, 2020

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