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Gloria and Rosa Make Beautiful Music
Gloria and Rosa use their love of music to make a change in their school district—together.
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Recovering and Teaching Local History
Local history has a profound effect on our communities. It’s up to educators to learn and teach students about the hard history in their own backyards.
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Section IV: Policy Checkup
To ensure students feel welcome, valued and safe enough to learn, schools must actively cultivate a welcoming climate that values every member of its student body. This means that the spoken and unspoken messages
July 5, 2017
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Parent Dress Code Fail: When Respectability Disrespects Families
The idea of a dress code for parents—like the one at Houston's James Madison High School—should bother us all. Schools need to engage with families as partners in students’ education, not troublemakers to control.
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Hate at School: November 2018
We tracked more hate reports in November 2018 than we did this time last year.
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Commit to Building a Just Future
Children should have the right to safe, affirming and inclusive schools. To uplift Banned Books Week and to honor LGBTQ+ History Month, support young people’s freedom to read, learn and build a just future.
- Exclusion Is Unconstitutional
- Building a Just Future
- ChangeMakers for an Inclusive and Just Future
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James Henry Gooding's Letter to Abraham Lincoln
A letter written by a free African-American Union soldier argues for equal pay for African-American soldiers.
August 17, 2018
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The Classical Roots of White Supremacy
A whitewashed history of the ancient world lays the foundation for white supremacy across the curriculum.
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Charles Henry Langston, Freedom Fighter
Charles Henry Langston was an early abolitionist in Ohio who risked his own safety and freedom to help another man escape slavery.
January 7, 2019
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Understanding Past and Present Labor Injustice through Music
Period songs give students an understanding of early 19th century labor conditions
July 6, 2009