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Teaching 'The New Jim Crow'

A teacher’s guide for The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, a groundbreaking book by Michelle Alexander.

Topic

Class Rights & Activism

June 23, 2022

author

Christopher Greenslate is a humanities teacher at High Tech High School in San Diego, California. Known for both his work as a Social Justice and Journalism educator, he has advised over 200 student activist projects over the last few years and is the co-author of "On a Dollar a Day: One Couple's Unlikely Adventures in Eating in America" which focuses on issues of food justice. His writing has been published by Green Teacher magazine and The New York Times, and he is currently serving on the Board of Advisors at the Institute for Humane Education.

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Issue 50, Summer 2015

Learning From the Inside

A teacher watches his students pass him in the hallways of a youth correctional facility

Educators working in locked facilities have a lot to offer—to their students and to their public-school colleagues.

Topic

Ability

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Informational

I Investigate Lynchings

Undercover, Walter White investigates an African-American woman's lynching in a rural Georgia town. White uses his Southern accent to keep suspicion at bay during a conversation with a general manager, whom he believes to be the lynch-mob leader.

Walter White

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

Geography

October 30, 2014

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January 24, 2017

Helping Students Develop Empathy Instead of Sympathy

When this literature teacher completes a book with her class and hears a student say, “Reading this makes me happy I am an American,” she flips the script.

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July 28, 2014

Reading and Writing to Learn About Activism

Reading and writing about the work of activists helped this teacher and her students realize that they can make social change by starting small.

Topic

Rights & Activism

article

September 19, 2014

The Activist Award Essay

To close an English unit on social activism, this teacher had her students reflect by recognizing and writing about the activist potential in their classmates.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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Informational

To Fulfill These Rights

Lyndon B. Johnson delivered this commencement address to Howard University graduating students in 1965. Johnson recognizes the plight of African Americans and describes the kind of civil rights progress he would like to see as president.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Class Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

July 7, 2014

student task

Do Something

Spotlight on Change Agents

Students investigate, interview and profile a person working for equity and social change. The person can work on the local, national or international level, with an organization or as an individual. The compiled profiles will form a resource for other students in the future.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

July 13, 2014

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Issue 54, Fall 2016

Toolkit for "Rock the Vote"

This toolkit for “Rock the Vote” lists 12 practical ways teachers and their students can rock the vote at school.

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