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October 30, 2020

Teach This: Voter Fraud and Voter Suppression

Voter handing photo identification to polling official.

Use these excerpts from ‘One Person, No Vote: How Not All Voters Are Treated Equally’ to help students identify claims, recognize evidence and evaluate the argument that charges of voter fraud can be a form of voter suppression.

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Rights & Activism

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Advocating for Teaching Honest History: What Educators Can Do

Young people deserve to learn honest history—history that is accurate, comprehensive and inclusive of perspectives beyond traditional, dominant narratives. Our newest resource guide, Advocating for Teaching Honest History: What Educators Can Do, offers concrete tools for educators seeking to ensure the right of future generations to an accurate accounting of our nation’s history.

Advocating for Teaching Honest History: What Educators Can Do
Teaching the Civil Rights Movement
Teaching Hard History: American Slavery

December 12, 2023

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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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June 25, 2018

Diverse Perspectives

TT Educator Grants support social justice work at the classroom, school and district levels. Read about how one teacher used a TT grant to fund an oral storytelling project to promote positive identity and diverse cultural perspectives.

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Immigration

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Issue 11, Spring 1997

Other People's Shoes

A secondary teacher uses multiple perspectives to examine the past.

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Bullying & Bias

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Informational

The Great Immigration Debate

Patricia Smith explores the nation's divide over how to deal with illegal immigration. She outlines the role of immigration in our history, notes the "wariness" felt over immigration ever since, and questions when and how Congress might act on the issue.

Patricia Smith

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9-12

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Immigration Rights & Activism

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Civics

History

Economics

July 5, 2014

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February 23, 2017

Tell Transgender Students: We’re Still Here for You

Yesterday, the Trump administration rescinded the Obama administration’s guidance on transgender students’ rights in public schools. Despite this action, the work to build safe, welcoming and affirming schools for transgender students must continue.

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Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism

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Issue 21, Spring 2002

Between the Lines

A new manual uses language to explore bias

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Bullying & Bias

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July 7, 2009

Roots of Cooperation

Historical and contemporary Japanese-Mexican collaboration leads to a theatrical performance. Replicate the play at your school.

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September 3, 2010

Interpreting Visuals: Rural America

Web Exclusive activities for What is Rural America? (page 28-31) from Teaching Tolerance No. 38.

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