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Voting in Your Town

Students use online resources to analyze current voter registration and turnout rates in their state and local community. They also explore potential roadblocks to the voting process (e.g., felon disenfranchisement and voter fraud).

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

October 3, 2016

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May 22, 2018

Teachers, Facebook and Civic Engagement

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In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, many people—educators chief among them—joined activist Facebook groups. Researchers at the University of Florida studied how these groups influenced educators’ civic engagement. Here’s what they learned.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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Multimedia

Fun and Fitness in a Library Parking Lot

Line dance leader Kit Cheung teaches her class of Chinese-American women in an unlikely place: the parking lot of a local library. No other public location offers both the outdoor space and sun cover the group requires for their twist on the traditional Chinese exercise of tai chi. The relationship that forms between the initially reluctant library and Kit’s dance group has created some unexpected opportunities.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Grade Level

3-5

Topic

Religion Ability Class Immigration

Subject

Social Studies

June 26, 2019

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Issue 61, Spring 2019

Reading Together

Illustration of several people reading books, superimposed over various houses and top of a large book.

How one group of parents created space for their children to learn, think and teach about social justice.

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Informational

Dedication to “The Barbarism of Slavery” Speech

The introduction to Senator Charles Sumner’s famous anti-slavery speech, summarizing the speech’s arguments and making the case against slavery.

Charles Sumner

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

Civics

History

December 13, 2017

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March 17, 2021

Responding to Anti-Asian Violence and Georgia Shootings

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After a shooting spree in Georgia took the lives of eight people—including six Asian American women—it’s important to pause, check in and prioritize care.

Topic

Class Gender & Sexual Identity

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August 29, 2017

For White Allies in Search of a Solution to American Racism / When Folks of Color Are Exhausted

Teaching Tolerance students engaging in discussion

Racism, white privilege and white supremacy are challenges that people of color neither created nor should be expected to resolve. This scholar encourages white allies to step up.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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Issue 6, Fall 2024

Loving and Nurturing Young People

The author of ‘Humans Who Teach’ encourages us all to work together in a collective approach to nurturing young people’s well-being.

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Issue 5, Fall 2023

Why Civics Needs Social Justice Education

Illustration of various exaggerated figures appearing in silhouettes of books.

Social justice-oriented civics education is crucial for developing the civic knowledge, skills and dispositions people need to fulfill the potential of a multiracial and inclusive democracy.

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Issue 24, Fall 2003

Let's Just Play

Preserve a child's right to create and explore.

Topic

Bullying & Bias

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