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Only Young Once: The Case for Mississippi’s Investment in Youth Decarceration

[2023] This report illustrates how Mississippi’s approach to youth justice is built on debunked notions of Black criminality, and offers a more humane alternative.

September 12, 2024

text

Informational

No Place to Pray

In this essay, the author details the kind of systematic persecution that Hutterites endured after settling colonies in the West in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Learning for Justice Staff

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Religion Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

Economics

Geography

April 28, 2016

teaching strategy

Exploring Texts Through Read Alouds

Developing Language to Talk About Texts

This strategy gives students tools to use when exploring, thinking about and discussing read-aloud texts.

Grade Level

K-2

CCSS

RL.K-2.3

July 13, 2014

article

April 2, 2018

Making King Real for Students Today

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | Flip Schulke/Corbis via Getty Images

On the anniversary of Dr. King's assassination, we encourage teachers to break through the simplistic King narrative and share his righteous anger at poverty and militarism.

Topic

Rights & Activism

article

June 2, 2020

Uprisings and Education

Protesters carrying signs that emphasize "Black Lives Matter."

An open letter from TT staff.

Topic

Rights & Activism

article

October 16, 2017

From Columbus to Charlottesville: An Urgent Call for Benevolence

This former high school history teacher now realizes that she failed her students by sticking to the subject matter and neglecting what’s most important about education. She’s worried her fellow educators might be failing too.

article

May 22, 2017

What Good Is a Voice If You Don’t Use It?

After years of leaving his classroom walls empty, this high school teacher was prompted by the current political climate to do a little decorating. It sparked some fruitful classroom discussions.

article

Issue 43, Spring 2013

And the WINNERS are …

Tan, one of the winners, in front of a mural

The 2012 Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Culturally Responsive Teaching

author

Nirvi Shah

Nirvi Shah is a freelance writer who lives in West Palm Beach, Fla.

text

Multimedia

Whitey on the Moon (1970)

This spoken word poem points out the irony of the government’s insistence on lavishing money on the space race while failing to fund struggling Black communities.

Gil Scott-Heron

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement

June 22, 2022

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