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Celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage
This resource page offers a place to start learning more and teaching about AAPI experiences and communities.
May 8, 2023
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A Call for Anti-Bias Education
To develop the next generation of civic leaders, educate children early and in age-appropriate ways about their identities and key concepts about race.
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Educating for Democracy
Effective civics literacy develops critical thinkers who can connect history and current events to engage in democratic action in building an equitable and just society.
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Teaching 'The New Jim Crow' Assessments This teacher’s guide offers summative assessments that allow students to demonstrate their knowledge and defend their views after studying The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in
July 6, 2017
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What We're Reading
Our book reviews can help you keep your practice fresh and informed.
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The War on Drugs—Mechanisms and Effects
Mass incarceration is fueled by a highly funded and minimally constrained criminal justice system that traps people branded as “criminals,” even individuals without a criminal record, into a permanent undercaste.
October 13, 2014
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Toolkit for "Segregation by Design"
This toolkit suggests ways to use primary sources to help students uncover the realities of segregation and how it was deliberately perpetuated in the United States.
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Queer People Have Always Existed—Teach Like It
Educators must commit to undoing the systemic silencing of queer figures throughout history. Here are some ways to more inclusively explore the past.
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Critical Engagement With Materials
Critical engagement emphasizes the value of students’ learning, increasing the likelihood that they will use the knowledge and skills they build in the service of their academic, personal, social and political lives.
May 23, 2023
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Slavery as a Form of Racialized Social Control
How did racial hierarchy adapt and persist after Emancipation? 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