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A Mountain Legacy
Children of Appalachia gain pride in their heritage and history
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Follow the Stream
Schools foster a sense of belonging and achievement in the nomadic lives of migrant students.
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Supporting Students With Learning Disabilities During School Closures
Experts from the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence offer recommendations for supporting students with learning disabilities through the coronavirus pandemic.
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From Slavery to School Discipline
Envisioning schools that affirm and protect Black students means reckoning with a long history of racist punishment.
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Why I’m A Racist
A white man writes about his journey to understanding his racial privilege and the “benefit of the doubt” that life has afforded him.
December 5, 2017
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Freedom Petition Submitted by Enslaved People to the New Hampshire State Legislature in Portsmouth on Nov. 12, 1779
This petition illustrates how enslaved people used the rhetoric of the American Revolution to point out the colonies’ hypocrisy of demanding freedom and liberty, while themselves having slavery.
January 5, 2018
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Spotlight on Whose Renaissance?
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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Educators and Their #Community: Finding Solidarity on Social Media
How social justice educators are using social media to find support, a platform and PD.
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Getting on the Right Track: How One School Stopped Tracking Students
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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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.
September 28, 2018