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Reading Diversity
Including diverse voices is a priority in K–12 classrooms. Learning for Justice offers a unique model to make it easier: Reading Diversity.
June 27, 2022
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Close and Critical Reading
Annolighting
“Annolighting” (annotating and highlighting) shows students how to identify critical information in a text during close reading. Students learn to annotate text, highlight important facts and summarize what they have read to capture main ideas, concepts and details.
July 19, 2014
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Informational
Freedom's Main Line
One of the earliest assaults on segregated transit in the South occurred in Louisville, Ky., in 1870-71. There, the city’s black community organized a successful protest that relied on nonviolent direct action, a tactic that would give shape to the modern civil rights movement nearly a century later.
December 6, 2017
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Dear Olympic Media: Do Better by Women Athletes
This blogger wants the media to know that their words and editorial choices matter because young people all over the country—and the world—are watching.
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Commemorating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
On this important anniversary, integrate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into your classroom reading instruction.
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Sources | Ten Myths About Immigration
A list of sources that help to dispel common immigration myths.
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Announcing The Children's March
A new film from Teaching Tolerance shows youth have the power to change the world.
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Time to Bury the “Lost Cause”
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has declared April Confederate History Month. His original seven-paragraph proclamation was full of paeans to grey-clad heroes but nowhere mentioned the agonies of slavery. This understandably offended African Americans, and McDonnell spent a day or so getting beat up in the media.
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Portfolio Activity for “Story Corner: An Unlikely Friendship”
This activity is to accompany the Teaching Tolerance article “Story Corner: An Unlikely Friendship.”
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The Gift of Second Languages
Today’s conventional wisdom is that English language learners (ELLs) need to master English as quickly as possible. Everything else is secondary. If these students remain fluent in their primary languages, good for them. If not, no big deal.