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Teaching Students About Historical Significance
How can educators push their students to think past a static understanding of history in developmentally appropriate ways? This teacher offers some insights from his classroom.
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A Message From Our Director
Teaching Tolerance director Maureen Costello honors Julian Bond, a champion for voting rights.
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Toolkit for "Rewriting History—for the Better"
American Indians are largely absent from mainstream social studies curricula. This toolkit for "Rewriting History—for the Better" showcases some of the best online sources for teaching about American Indians with an eye for inclusivity and accuracy.
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"Thug Is the New N-Word"
In this segment from 3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets, the viewer gets multiple perspectives about the murder of Jordan Davis. This transcripts focuses on his parents’ reflections on his birth, their reactions to his murder and testimony from the trial of Michael Dunn.
August 19, 2016
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How Inclusive Is Your Teaching About the Environment?
How are you aligning the way you teach about the environment with the rest of your work as a social justice educator?
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“We Won’t Wear the Name”
At these three high schools, each named for Robert E. Lee, students led the way toward change.
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What We’re Watching
Dim the lights and get ready to learn with these TT-approved films!
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Freedom's Main Line
One of the earliest assaults on segregated transit in the South occurred in Louisville, Ky., in 1870-71. There, the city’s black community organized a successful protest that relied on nonviolent direct action, a tactic that would give shape to the modern civil rights movement nearly a century later.
December 6, 2017
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Race and Poverty Matter, Even on Earth Day
There’s an old joke among real estate agents that the three most important things to consider in any property are location, location, location.