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Issue 4, Spring 2023

Healing Through Restoration and Transformation

Stylized and colorful illustration of faces.

A community Freedom School model in Mississippi embraces transformative practices to strengthen relationships and disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline, illustrating the power of communities to effect change.

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Issue 1, Fall 2021

Thirty Years of Learning and Counting!

Learn more about all that LFJ has to offer!

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Issue 33, Spring 2008

Peeling Back the Labels

Child writing on the chalkboard "I will not talk in class"

A child's ADHD diagnosis raises one parent's concerns about the stereotypes that too often surround the disorder.

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Ability

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Issue 53, Summer 2016

Toolkit for "Teaching at the Intersections"

This toolkit for “Teaching at the Intersections” provides anti-bias essential questions and readings from Perspectives for a Diverse America that can be used to build student understanding of intersectionality in grades K-12.

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February 2, 2017

Thinking With Hannah Arendt About Responsibility

What makes 20th-century political theorist Hannah Arendt’s analysis so relevant to our times, and what might educators gain from studying her works?

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May 9, 2014

You CAN Teach About Religion in Public School!

The First Amendment defines the parameters of including religious content in U.S. public school classrooms, but teachers still wonder: What does religion as content look like?

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Religion

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Jim Crow as a Form of Racialized Social Control

How did Jim Crow function as a mechanism of racialized social control? Throughout its history, the United States has been structured by a racial caste system. From slavery to Jim Crow to mass incarceration, these forms of racialized social control reinvented themselves to meet the needs of the dominant social class according to the constraints of each era.

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9-12

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Class Rights & Activism

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Social Studies

Civics

History

October 13, 2014

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Issue 52, Spring 2016

Begin Within

Prepare yourself to discuss race, racism and other difficult topics with students.

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Issue 51, Fall 2015

“What’s ‘Colorism’?”

How would your students answer this question?

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Bullying & Bias

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Invisible Man, Prologue

Is it possible to be seen but not noticed? To be noticed but not understood? Ralph Ellison shows that invisibility is no accident.

Ralph Ellison

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9-12

July 5, 2014

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