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Issue 4, Spring 2023

What We're Watching

Dim the lights and get ready to learn with these LFJ-approved films!

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Issue 6, Fall 2024

Child Hunger Should Concern Us All

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Ensuring food security for all children is a national responsibility that should cut across political divides.

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Felicia Graham (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Social Science & Comparative Education at UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. At UCLA her teaching and scholarship focus on youth civic engagement, global media, and decolonizing epistemologies of the global south. Guided by Chicana feminist theory, her current research engages youth in a political and economic critique of media to become advocates for culturally, historically, and politically responsive education based on human dignity, earthly respect, and rooted in the practice of love. Felicia is a student fellow for the

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Issue 17, Spring 2000

No Place for Bigotry

An anti-bias club changes the atmosphere at a suburban high school

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Bullying & Bias

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Issue 35, Spring 2009

Exposing Hidden Homophobia

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Students learn to spot bias in their culture —and confront their own homophobia in the process.

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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Issue 59, Summer 2018

“We Are Our Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams”

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As part of our series highlighting educator voices, we spoke to five Black teachers who teach in predominately Black or all-Black settings to ask how they approach the topic of slavery.

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Issue 63, Fall 2019

What We're Reading

Teaching Tolerance loves to read! Check out a few of our favorite books for diverse readers and educators.

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Section II: Classroom Culture

Creating an Inclusive Environment With Words Creating an LGBTQ-inclusive classroom culture begins with a readiness to answer questions or facilitate appropriate conversation around LGBTQ issues. In order to facilitate

October 25, 2018

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Issue 35, Spring 2009