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Classroom Activists: How Service-Learning Challenges Prejudice
This interview with teacher Lisa Weinbaum accompanies her Teaching Tolerance article "'At Risk' of Greatness."
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Teaching the Inauguration
Struggling with how to address the upcoming inauguration in your classroom? Consider teaching about inaugural history.
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Misunderstood Terms and Practices
What is the Truth About American Muslims? Misunderstood Terms and Practices 14. What does “jihad” mean? Isn’t it a “holy war”? “Jihad” literally means striving, or doing one’s utmost. Within Islam, there are two basic
October 11, 2012
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The N-Word: Connected Through Historical Disconnect?
Dr. Neal Lester talks about meeting folks across the country who want thoughtful, informed and critical conversation about the troublesome n-word.
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Women’s Suffrage
This lesson is the fourth in a series called Expanding Voting Rights. The overall goal of the series is for students to explore the complicated history of voting rights in the United States. Two characteristics of that history stand out: First, in fits and starts, more and more Americans have gained the right to vote. Second, over time, the federal government's role in securing these rights has expanded considerably.
February 10, 2014
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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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Help Students Respond With Empathy and Respect
Tanenbaum and Teaching Tolerance share tips for coaching students during class discussions on religious and nonreligious beliefs.
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Do You See What I See?
Children need help learning to see perspectives that differ from their own, and teachers can guide them—even in preschool and the early grades.
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Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story
Sixteen pages front to back, Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story sported a 10-cent cover price and featured 1950s mainstream studio style art when it went to press in December 1957. The publication date was
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Bridging the Cultural Gaps in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the novel To Kill A Mockingbird. Harper Lee’s work is so powerful and popular that it has never been out of print, selling more than 30 million copies.