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February 21, 2018

From Birmingham to Parkland: Celebrate the Power of Young Voices

Student Protest and Activism | Olivier Douliery, Abaca Press | Sipa via AP Images | Teaching Tolerance

The young activists who emerged from the Parkland, Florida, school shooting offer educators a tremendous opportunity to celebrate the power of youth activism—past and present.

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Rights & Activism

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March 2, 2017

Marching Into Women’s History Month

From now on, when we talk about women’s history, the Women’s March should be part of those lessons. Here’s why.

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Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

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Jim Crow as a Form of Racialized Social Control

How did Jim Crow function as a mechanism of racialized social control? Throughout its history, the United States has been structured by a racial caste system. From slavery to Jim Crow to mass incarceration, these forms of racialized social control reinvented themselves to meet the needs of the dominant social class according to the constraints of each era.

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9-12

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Class Rights & Activism

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Social Studies

Civics

History

October 13, 2014

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January 16, 2011

Showing Our Best on MLK Day

In classrooms all over the country, posters hang on walls bearing the face of Martin Luther King, Jr. Libraries put out displays of books about his life. Bulletin boards are decorated with phrases from famous speeches. Many will remain up throughout the school year, not just for the federal observance of King’s birthday on Monday.

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Rights & Activism

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October 4, 2019

Sacred Spaces and the Work of Social Justice Educators

Photograph of the Civil Rights Memorial wall and fountain. The words "...until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. —Martin Luther King Jr." appear plainly on the wall.

The Civil Rights Memorial sits near TT's office. As we celebrate the birthday of its designer, Maya Lin, a TT staffer reflects on this space and its connection to the work educators do every day.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 44, Summer 2013

Serving Up Food Justice at School

Grow food justice in the garden or the classroom.

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Class Rights & Activism

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Harry Chiu

Harry Chiu (he/him) is the Lynn Walker Huntley Social Justice Fellow at the Southern Education Foundation and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), where he brings civil rights cases on behalf of LGBTQ+ youth and students of color.

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Race Against Time

Dozens of racially motivated murders took place in the South during the 1950s and 1960s. Time is running out to solve these cold cases.

Shaila Dewan

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9-12

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Civics

History

Economics

Geography

July 5, 2014

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February 5, 2010

Charter Schools: Resegregating America?

Are charter schools helping to resegregate public schools? A just-released study states flatly that they are.

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Rights & Activism

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March 26, 2021

Humanizing Asian Americans in the Classroom Through Children’s Literature

Two young students reading separate books.

Asian American stories are often absent from classroom libraries. In this article, one educator explains why this gap is so harmful—and recommends ways to fix it.

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Immigration

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