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August 25, 2020

Teach This: Texas Students Fight for Their Right to Vote

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Use this discussion guide to start a conversation with students about what voter suppression looks like today. Outlining the historical and present-day barriers to voters faced by students at one Texas HBCU, the featured video in this guide helps students recognize voter suppression and see how other young people are fighting it.

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Rights & Activism

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Only Young Once: Alabama’s Overreliance on School Pushout and For-Profit Youth Incarceration

[2024] This report details how a narrative of youth crime contributes to overly punitive school discipline, racial disparities, and an expensive youth legal system that is not designed for rehabilitation.

September 12, 2024

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Creating and Upholding Just Systems

Social justice leadership includes regularly assessing and improving systems and structures that promote student well-being and equity—in both experiences and outcomes.

May 26, 2023

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The House on Lemon Street

In 1916, one family battled against the unjust laws aimed at immigrants of Japanese ancestry. In doing so, they lent their own voices to the growing chorus of Asian Americans insisting: "We belong here."

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Grade Level

9-12

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Class Immigration

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Civics

History

July 13, 2018

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Issue 5, Fall 2023

Educating for Democracy

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Effective civics literacy develops critical thinkers who can connect history and current events to engage in democratic action in building an equitable and just society.

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Appendix

Survey Questions Where is your school or district located? Which of these best describes your work setting? Elementary school Middle/intermediate school High school Ungraded/Alternative school Comprehensive (K–12) school

April 23, 2019

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Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free

“Democracy is not a state. It is not some high plateau that we struggle to reach so we can finally settle down to rest. Democracy is an act. It is an act that requires participation, organization and dedication to the highest principles. It is an act, and a series of actions that require us to continuously verify our commitment to civil rights and social justice at every challenge.”
— Rep. John Lewis

What Are the Values of Democracy?
Fannie Lou Hamer
Freedom Summer and Democracy Today

July 1, 2025

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June 28, 2017

An Emmett Till Sign Was Erased—So Students Stepped in to Honor His Memory

The story of Emmett Till, in part, represents a fight against erasure and mistruths. Recently, a group of students joined that fight.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 40, Fall 2011

A Second Revolution

This piece is to accompany the Teaching Tolerance article "Getting the Civil War Right." Some historians have called the period of Reconstruction that followed the Civil War the "second American Revolution" and the 13th

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Issue 66, Spring 2021

What We're Watching

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

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