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Hate at School: January 2019
We’re halfway through the school year, and there is no indication that hate incidents at school are slowing down.
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Race and Ethnicity
Racial bias—of all sorts—is the most common driver of incidents, making up 33 percent of the number reported by educators and 63 percent of those reported in the news media. Black students are the ones targeted in an
May 1, 2019
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Teach This: HBCUs Are Not Pioneers of School Choice
This week’s statement from Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos on historically black colleges and universities is a prime example of whitewashing U.S. history. Classroom teachers for grades 6-12, however, can use this moment as a teaching opportunity.
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July 8, 2014
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Remember the Tulsa Race Massacre
May 31 marks the anniversary of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Here's why this history must be told.
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Connecting the ‘Brown’ Decision to Today’s Social Justice Movement
Teach the Supreme Court’s decision in 'Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka' in all its complexity and relevance to the ongoing movement for inclusive education.
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Mary McLeod Bethune
In this lesson, students will read an excerpt of an interview given by Mary McLeod Bethune and will learn that she founded the Daytona National and Industrial School for Negro Girls (now Bethune-Cookman College) in 1904. Through close reading, they will explore and discuss connections between events from Bethune’s life experiences and their own lives, and connections between past and current events.
May 17, 2012
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StoryCorps: I Couldn't Buy a Movie Ticket
“What was the saddest moment of your life?”
July 8, 2014
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StoryCorps: It Was Never a Slum to Me
“They called it slums but it was never a slum to me.”
July 8, 2014