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Jennifer Rowe

Jennifer Rowe is the Executive Director of Educational Equity for Indian Prairie School District in Aurora, Illinois. She has a strong passion for equity work and believes that through building relationships and providing opportunity, real change can occur. Rowe is the co-founder of the Valley Runway, a program that provides prom dresses and tuxedos to students, has partnered with FermiLab to create a summer STEM camp for Black and Latinx students, and has collaborated with 360 Youth Services to provide school-based mental health services in her district’s middle and high schools.

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September 9, 2015

Names Do Matter

The start of the school year is an important time to remember that names have meaning—whether they belong to monuments, mountains or to your own students.

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Rights & Activism

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March 21, 2013

Rosa Parks: Abused and Misused

When Idaho Rep. Brent Crane characterized Rosa Parks as a champion of states’ rights in a recent debate, it was a troubling sign of what happens when a nation doesn’t work hard to remember its history.

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Rights & Activism

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December 20, 2017

The Best of 2017

Check out TT’s can’t-miss stories and PD resources from 2017!

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Issue 26, Fall 2004

What's in a Mascot?

A 9th-grade English unit helps students analyze legacy behind Native American mascots.

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Issue 35, Spring 2009

How School Taught Me I Was Poor

Teaching Tolerance illustration of a student walking with head down while kids laught at him from the school bus window on its way to wealthy neighborhoods

Third grade was a bad year. Third grade was the year I learned in school that I was poor.

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Class

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Issue 51, Fall 2015

The Young and the Registered

Teaching Tolerance illustration Young and the Registered

Voting doesn’t just change election results—it can change lives.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 60, Fall 2018

A Museum. A Memorial. A Message.

Looking up at part of the Lynching Memorial

Montgomery, Alabama, is home to two new attractions focused on the history of racial terror. Share the lessons of the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice with your students.

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The North Star Tea Party

In this poem, Nell and her family follow the North Star and navigate the Underground Railroad to freedom.

Glenda Armand

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6-8

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Slavery

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History

January 8, 2019

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David W. Blight

David W. Blight is Class of 1954 Professor of American History and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University. He is the author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, forthcoming from Simon and Schuster. Learn more about his work here.

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