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What We’re Reading This Week: May 31, 2019
A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.
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Music Reconstructed: Lara Downes’ Classical Perspective on Jim Crow
Installment 4 From concertos to operas, Black composers captured the changes and challenges facing African Americans during Jim Crow. Renowned classical pianist Lara Downes is bringing new appreciation to the works of
April 26, 2022
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Teaching About Ramadan and Eid
Ramadan begins today. Discuss this Muslim holy month with students—and take a step toward countering Islamophobia.
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How State Standards Represent Indigenous Peoples
In this Q&A blog, education researcher Kate Shuster asks Sarah Shear of Penn State University-Altoona about how indigenous history is taught in U.S. classrooms and why many states’ standards need to be revamped.
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Finding Resolve After the New Zealand Mosque Shootings
The mosque shootings in New Zealand may be far away, but this is an opportunity to help students understand and actively participate in a better tomorrow.
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Explore the History of ‘Loving’
Learning for Justice produced this interdisciplinary teacher’s guide for The Loving Story, a documentary film about a couple’s fight to end the ban on interracial marriage.
June 24, 2022
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Expanding Democracy Through Intersecting Movements
In the continuing fight for justice and the expansion of democracy, understanding intersecting movements to end oppression is imperative and inspiring. Those at the intersections of geography, gender, poverty and race, as LFJ Director Jalaya Lyles Dunn explains, “will determine the fate of our democracy,” and have often been the agents of change, as witnessed by the connections between the past and the present highlighted in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Civil Rights Memorial Center.
- Expanding Democracy Through Intersecting Movements
- Expanding Democracy
- James Baldwin
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A Garden of Honor
Latino students in East L.A. plant a tribute to Japanese Americans.
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Rest and Reflect, Then Let Peace and Love Be Your Guide in 2023
“So I say to you, walk with the wind, brothers and sisters, and let the spirit of peace and the power of everlasting love be your guide.” —Rep. John Lewis
- James Baldwin
- Yaki's Mural
- The Night Before the Dream
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‘Never Again’ Starts With Education
Mandating Holocaust education in U.S. public schools and simultaneously banning or censoring other “hard histories” is ineffective, disingenuous and further demonstrates the importance of teaching honest history.