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Teach This: Native American Appropriation at the Super Bowl
This weekend’s Super Bowl offers an opportunity to talk with students about appropriation and identity.
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Let Black Students Be Kids: Down With 'Respectability'
We need to push back against the message that students’ intelligence and appearances are related.
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The Day I Swam Into a New World
Frances dreams of swimming with her classmates, but will everyone be welcome at her new community pool?
August 6, 2015
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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.
October 13, 2014
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Standing Up Against Hate
Educators have always had the responsibility to stand up to hate and bias—but it's more necessary now than ever.
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The Criminalization of Elementary Students
One after-school programmer reflects on the criminalization of youth.
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The Gender Spectrum
Move beyond the pink/blue binary to support students who don’t conform to narrow gender norms.
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Moving From Bicultural to Transcultural Acculturation
The definition of biculturalism is limited when it comes to Third Culture Kids. Here are some ways to understand and support students who belong to multiple identity groups.
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'THIS is Why We Need a GSA'
Gay-straight alliances are taking hold in middle schools, where homophobia and anti-gay harassment may be the most rampant.