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Issue 62, Summer 2019

Getting on the Right Track: How One School Stopped Tracking Students

Illustration of students being funneled down two different paths.

Tracking and ability grouping remain common practices in schools across the country despite research showing these practices contribute to segregated classes and opportunity gaps. In Walla Walla, Washington, a group of educators decided to try something different.

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Issue 63, Fall 2019

School Safety and Guns Don’t Mix

Illustration of a gun inside of a desk drawer.

Politicians say arming teachers will make schools safer, but educators disagree.

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February 26, 2021

Presently Invisible: The Arab Plight in American Classrooms

To create more inclusive classrooms and counter negative narratives about Arab Americans, educators can include Arab American history and culture in their current curriculum. Here are some ways to do that.

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Religion

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Text-dependent Questions for "The Lockdown"

Text-dependent Questions accompany "The Lockdown."

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9-12

Topic

Class Rights & Activism

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Social Studies

Civics

History

July 18, 2017

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Issue 64, Spring 2020

Responding to Hate and Bias in the West

Illustration of several separate and distressed people looking at or using their phones.

A Las Vegas school made headlines when hate shook its campus. Now a group of parents is fighting to ensure children learn in a safer and more equitable environment.

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June 27, 2018

Spotlight on Whose Renaissance?

Students painting wall | TT Grants Spotlight

TT Educator Grants support social justice work at the classroom, school and district levels. Grants Manager Jey Ehrenhalt spoke with Chris Dolgos about his project investigating the equity of urban renewal.

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Class

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Issue 62, Summer 2019

Educators and Their #Community: Finding Solidarity on Social Media

Illustration of a lighthouse shining a light made up of hashtag symbols.

How social justice educators are using social media to find support, a platform and PD.

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Informational

To Serve With Honor

Leonard Matlovich, a U.S. Air Force sergeant, was awarded the Purple Heart for service in Vietnam, but discharged soon after telling his captain he was gay and appearing in uniform on the cover of Time magazine with the words, "I Am a Homosexual" emblazoned next to him. While he may have "settled" in his fight against the Air Force, he was a pioneer in the fight for gay and lesbian rights in the military.

LFJ Staff

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

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History

September 28, 2018

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Enrichment Courses

There are several reasons why TT materials may be more commonly used in enrichment courses than their foundations or methods counterparts. It may be that faculty teaching these classes have more flexibility to

October 24, 2018

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Passages in the Life of a Slave Woman

In this short story, from the 1853 abolitionist collection Autographs for Freedom, Parker shares a heartbreaking tale that shows some of the damage enslavement inflicts on families.

Annie Parker

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

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History

Economics

December 15, 2017

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