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Reading Together
How one group of parents created space for their children to learn, think and teach about social justice.
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Authors of Their Own Stories
When these students wanted to see themselves in the books they read, their educators helped them do something about it.
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You Spoke, We Listened
Our latest magazine issue, a brand-new guide for serving English language learners and posts about school choice have inspired a lot of dialogue with our readers.
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What is a Hate Crime?
This lesson leads students to analyze the nature of hate and explore legislation that addresses hate crimes.
July 11, 2017
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Civics for Democracy
LFJ Director Jalaya Liles Dunn contends that civics should “represent the agency and change of each generation, demonstrating the needs of the time and how people showed up for the collective good.”
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Digging Deep Into the Social Justice Standards: Action
In this conclusion to a four-part series exploring the four domains of LFJ’s Social Justice Standards, we take a deep dive into action.
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Rising to the Challenge
A Louisiana Children's Museum exhibit takes the "dis" out of disability.
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Lessons From Home
Education reformer Lisa Delpit encourages teachers to discover who their students are outside the classroom.
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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.
July 3, 2014
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No Promised Land
“When Mormons settled in Missouri in the 1830s, local residents found Mormon beliefs and practices not simply strange, but wrong. … The Mormons, the Missouri governor declared, must be removed—if not by expulsion, then by extermination.”
May 22, 2017