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Why Teaching Black Lives Matter Matters | Part I
All educators have the civic responsibility to learn and teach the basic history and tenets of this movement for racial justice.
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Art as Resistance, Part 2
In this second blog of a two-part series, a high school English teacher in the Dominican Republic explains how her students’ exploration of social injustices materialized in an action project that no one involved will ever forget.
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Parallels Between Mass Incarceration and Jim Crow
What are the most salient similarities between mass incarceration and Jim Crow? Mass incarceration is a system of racialized social control that, like slavery and Jim Crow before it, operates to discriminate and create a stigmatized racial group locked into an inferior position by law and custom.
October 14, 2014
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What We're Reading
Teaching Tolerance loves to read! Check out a few of our favorite diverse books for readers and educators.
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Remembering My Four Friends 50 Years Later
Glenn Ellis gives a personal account of the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, and remembers his four friends: Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Denise McNair.
November 18, 2014
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Enrichment Courses
There are several reasons why TT materials may be more commonly used in enrichment courses than their foundations or methods counterparts. It may be that faculty teaching these classes have more flexibility to
October 24, 2018
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A Message From Our Director
Teaching Tolerance director Maureen Costello encourages educators to confront the difficult truths of American history.
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Raids
Fear is a reality for Anne Garcia's students, but she's not going to let it dampen her commitment to RESIST on their behalf.
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What We're Watching
Dim the lights and get ready to learn with these TT-approved films!
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Hate at School: August 2018
In the first month that students returned to school in much of the United States, we found that hate picked up where it left off last year.