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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?

“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” was a speech given by abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852, in Rochester, N.Y., at an event commemorating American independence.

Frederick Douglass

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

July 3, 2014

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Issue 35, Spring 2009

Flipping the Script on Bias and Bullies

Teaching Tolerance illustration of an audience watching a play

Social justice theater can teach your students to take the story into their own hands.

Topic

Bullying & Bias

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April 17, 2023

‘Never Again’ Starts With Education

A photo of the eternal flame in the Hall of Remembrance at the Holocaust Memorial

Mandating Holocaust education in U.S. public schools and simultaneously banning or censoring other “hard histories” is ineffective, disingenuous and further demonstrates the importance of teaching honest history.

Topic

Religion Rights & Activism

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Issue 4, Spring 2023

Healing Through Restoration and Transformation

Stylized and colorful illustration of faces.

A community Freedom School model in Mississippi embraces transformative practices to strengthen relationships and disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline, illustrating the power of communities to effect change.

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August 2, 2017

Meet "Team Wildin"

Interview conducted by Matt Villano. There’s no telling what would have happened to Wildin Acosta if his classmates and teachers hadn’t mobilized on his behalf. While the adults at Riverside High School were critical in

Topic

Immigration

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Issue 26, Fall 2004

Columbine Timeline

Spring & Summer 1999 April 20 Columbine High School students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shoot and kill 12 students and one teacher before turning the guns on themselves. Twenty-three are injured. The students killed

Topic

Rights & Activism

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Literature

Hercules’ Daughter

Young Delia learns a hard lesson from her papa about what it means to be enslaved on George Washington’s plantation.

Glenda Armand

Grade Level

3-5 6-8

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

Economics

January 7, 2019

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Issue 6, Fall 2024

Loving and Nurturing Young People

The author of ‘Humans Who Teach’ encourages us all to work together in a collective approach to nurturing young people’s well-being.

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Issue 13, Spring 1998

A Garden of Honor

Latino students in East L.A. plant a tribute to Japanese Americans.

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“Mainstream, USA”

In this lesson, students will see how statistical data can tell a larger story, understand numbers in various contexts and explore different points of view in relation to data. They will also consider how—as future voters—they will help determine how the political process can serve everybody.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Immigration

Subject

Social Studies

Math & Technology

September 29, 2014

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