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Let's Talk About "Bossy"
At TT we’re always keeping our ears to the ground for innovative programs designed to empower students. Our writer explores two campaigns challenging the implications of the word “bossy.”
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Freedom Schools 50 Years Later
Fifty years after the Freedom Schools of 1964, today’s Freedom Schools continue the legacy.
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Section I: Policy Checkup
Policies reflect a school’s priorities and, like budgets, reveal as much in what they omit as in what’s written on the page. It’s time more LGBTQ kids see themselves on the page. School leaders who make inclusive
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Judgement of the Supreme Court of the United States in Plessy v. Ferguson
In the matter of Plessy v. Ferguson, the United States Supreme Court upheld practices that perpetuated Jim Crow segregation, declaring that “separate but equal” accommodations were legal. Nearly 60 years later, the Court overturned the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.
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Bathroom Rules to Keep Students Safe
For transgender youth, the school’s bathroom can be a dangerous place. School administrators must set policies now allowing for students to use the facilities to match their gender identities.
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One of the Great Teachable Moments of Our Time
This teacher recognizes the ongoing news surrounding Harvey Weinstein, Mike Oreskes and others as an opportunity to openly discuss sexually predatory behavior.
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From Awareness to Action
Young people make great political activists. How can you get them involved in fighting for issues that matter?
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Starving Schools to Feed Privatization
President Trump’s budget proposal uses the pretense of civil rights to further his school choice agenda—at the expense of research-based public school programming.
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We Rest Our Case: American Slavery Is Widely Mistaught
After hearing from skeptics about our Teaching Hard History report findings, TT Director Maureen Costello came across striking new evidence that the project is necessary.