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Start Planning Now: Hispanic Heritage Month
Cultural celebrations give students a chance to shine and benefit schools all year long.
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Exploring Young Immigrant Stories
This lesson helps students appreciate diversity among their peers and the diversity of immigrants all over the world. Through hands-on exercises, students will discover similarities and differences they share with other children.
September 12, 2016
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Ten Myths About Immigration
Debunk the misinformation students bring to school—and help them think for themselves.
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Margaret Batchelder, Immigrant Inspector (1903)
Margaret Batchelder writes to President Theodore Roosevelt to tell him how women inspectors welcome immigrants—with smiles and encouragement. Although not allowed to question the immigrants, the women make a difference in the immigrants' first experiences on shore.
July 7, 2014
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Protecting Immigrant Students’ Rights
Public schools have a legal obligation to enroll and support immigrant students and English language learners. New resources from the SPLC help advocates work with families to ensure schools are meeting this responsibility.
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Immigrant Charter Schools: A Better Choice?
Charter schools tailored to the needs of newly arrived immigrants are getting a lot of attention. But are they working? And will they lead to a new kind of segregation?
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An Educator’s Guide to the Immigration Debate
What you need to know to facilitate classroom conversation about this controversial topic.
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Celebrate Native American Heritage
Native American Heritage Month provides an opportunity to celebrate the diversity of Native cultures and communities. To honor Native peoples, we uplift their honest histories, significant contributions and contemporary
November 1, 2023
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How We Waste the Potential of Immigrants
The county career center in my school district boasts a 96-percent placement rate, even in these days of near double-digit unemployment. That’s because its graduates develop skills our community needs. Students build houses. They repair cars. They network computers. Whether their next step is college, an apprenticeship or immediate employment, most high school students who complete a tech school program exit with a head start toward security. If only that were true for all.
