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The Civil Rights Movement: 10 Key Concepts

These 10 key concepts and main points encourage us to think critically about the complexities of history as we learn about and from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and ’60s.

August 24, 2024

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Issue 36, Fall 2009

Talking Race

Teaching Tolerance illustration with two teachers talking about 'dialogue', 'discussion', and 'debate'

Making a space where teachers can talk about difference.

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Issue 24, Fall 2003

Out of the Shadows

Adoptive families seek to transform classroom strategies.

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Class Bullying & Bias

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Shelton is a first-grade teacher and author of Child of the Civil Rights Movement. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and three sons. She is dedicated to spreading the truth about our American history.

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Issue 66, Spring 2021

Mathematics in Context: The Pedagogy of Liberation

Social justice education isn’t limited to humanities courses. Two math educators explain how their commitment to equity informs the way they teach.

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July 28, 2016

Where Scholars Disagree: How SCOTUS Influenced the Civil Rights Movement

Scholars are divided on the role of the U.S. Supreme Court in the civil rights movement. This blogger, a history teacher, explains why this debate is a valuable lesson.

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Rights & Activism

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Only Young Once: The Urgent Need for Reform of Louisiana’s Youth Justice System

[2023] This report explores how perceptions of Black youth in Louisiana’s school and juvenile justice systems contribute to an overreliance on punitive measures, leading to stark racial disparities.

September 12, 2024

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August 9, 2022

‘Roe v. Wade’—What Can Educators Do?

Two women sit at a table and one of the women is talking to someone across from her who is not in view. They are in a workshop setting.

While we may feel overwhelmed in the aftermath of the overturned landmark decision, we are neither hopeless nor helpless. A social justice education expert offers suggestions.

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Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

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Issue 65, Fall 2020

A Message From Our Managing Editor

Many of us are not OK right now, but so many people are doing good work to change that—including good work in schools.

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On Being Brought From Africa to America

In this poem, the speaker explores the relationship between her Christian beliefs and her enslavement. She reminds her readers of the Christian belief that anyone, regardless of their race, can follow Christianity and be saved.

Phillis Wheatley

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9-12

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Religion Rights & Activism

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History

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July 7, 2014

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