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January 2, 2018

Toolkit for "Teaching Hard History"

"Can Words Lead to War?" is an Inquiry Design Model (IDM), one of six sample IDMs that accompany the Teaching Hard History project. This inquiry provides students with an opportunity to explore how words affect public opinion through an examination of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel 'Uncle Tom’s Cabin.'

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Maintain Neutrality

Learn how schools can teach religious tolerance -- and stay within constitutional bounds.

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School Climate

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Religion

July 6, 2009

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March 26, 2010

Enduring Images Captured the Conscience of the Nation

A powerful collection of Civil Rights-era photographs is on display now through August 2010 at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. If you can’t organize a class trip to the museum, consider taking your students on a virtual tour of the era.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 43, Spring 2013

Toolkit for “The School-to-Prison Pipeline”

The school-to-prison pipeline represents an intersection of complex issues, including race, class, education and the American justice system. Learn more by exploring the following research. Bibliography Bureau of Justice

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August 21, 2013

Teaching the Movement, Beyond Four Famous Words

The March on Washington was more than a backdrop to “I Have a Dream.”

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Rights & Activism

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March 27, 2018

The Bravery of Linda Brown

Linda Brown | Brown v Board of Education of Topeka

As we remember Linda Brown Thompson, we must also consider the reality of the world she lived in when, at the age of 9, she became the face of school desegregation.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 61, Spring 2019

Toolkit for "Finding Our Power: A Q&A with Carol Anderson"

This toolkit offers resources that can help you teach the subject of voter suppression and contextualize this history for students.

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Liberation Lit

These LFJ book reviews for adult readers encourage us all to keep reading and learning together for liberation.

August 28, 2024

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Sarah Anderson

Sarah Anderson teaches middle school humanities and interdisciplinary studies at a place-based charter school in Portland, Ore. Originally from rural Vermont, Anderson has also taught nature studies to urban middle school students in the California Redwoods, career skills to at-risk youth on an educational farm in Vermont and Civics and Global Studies at an independent school in Maryland. She earned a bachelor’s degree in American Studies at Bard College and a masters in education in Integrated Learning from Antioch New England Graduate School.

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Issue 25, Spring 2004