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February 26, 2021

Presently Invisible: The Arab Plight in American Classrooms

To create more inclusive classrooms and counter negative narratives about Arab Americans, educators can include Arab American history and culture in their current curriculum. Here are some ways to do that.

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Race & Ethnicity Religion

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February 26, 2015

What Is Your American Flag?

Two drastically different images of the American flag have appeared in popular culture. What might they reveal about the state of race relations in the United States?

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Race & Ethnicity

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An Act for Prohibiting the Importation of Negroes, June 1774

With this text, the colony of Rhode Island outlawed the importation of enslaved Africans and established the immediate emancipation of enslaved people in the colony in 1774. However, the law stipulated some important exceptions that made this change particularly ineffective.

Colony of Rhode Island

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9-12

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Slavery

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History

December 15, 2017

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Are You Ready to Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month?

September 15 through October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month! To help you celebrate and honor Hispanic Heritage Month with your students, we’ve compiled some of our favorite resources for bringing Latinx voices to the classroom. We hope these help you uplift a diverse range of intersectional Hispanic and Latinx identities, experiences, cultures and histories.

Unmaking “Hispanic”: Teaching the Creation of Hispanic Identity
Latinx History Is Black History
Bibi

September 8, 2020

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Issue 25, Spring 2004

Brown v. Board: An American Legacy

Historical photo of an African American family outside of a house

What 'Brown v. Board' meant to the United States.

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June 4, 2018

SPLC’s ‘Whose Heritage?’ Report: A Teaching Opportunity

Across the country, schools, monuments and statues pay homage to the Confederacy. A new report can help teach the history behind these public fixtures—and how they spread throughout the South and beyond.

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Race & Ethnicity Rights & Activism

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Issue 47, Summer 2014

Toolkit for Native Youth Think Globally, Act Locally

Do a critical reading of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

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Raspberries! An American Tale of Cooperation

A yellow bird holds a raspberry in her long beak. The sun shines in the background.

With only one wing, the little bird cannot fly to the raspberry patch with her brothers. As luck would have it, she meets a little dog, a chipmunk, and a frog who work together to get them all across the street to the raspberry patch.

Mary Newell DePalma

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K-2

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Ability

July 2, 2014

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October 24, 2016

An American Roster: Presidents in My Class

In this fourth-grade teacher’s classroom, a long lineup of U.S. presidential faces is tacked on the wall. She reflects on how a new president will soon gaze down on her students.

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Immigration Race & Ethnicity Class Gender & Sexual Identity

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The First Coconut Tree

In this pourquoi tale, a mother living on one of the islands in the Pacific Islands, is mystified when she bears a round child with no arms and no legs, but she tenderly raises the child until one day he asks to be buried in the sand, where he can grow (into the first coconut tree) and every part of him can be useful.

Nancy Bo Flood

Grade Level

3-5

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Bullying & Bias

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Geography

January 5, 2015

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