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Teaching 'The New Jim Crow'
A teacher’s guide for The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, a groundbreaking book by Michelle Alexander.
June 23, 2022
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Teaching With Tech Equity in Mind
An Oakland-based nonprofit empowers low-income youth of color with technology skills.
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Teaching Students to Be Advocates for Social Justice
A ZIP code shouldn’t determine the quality of a student’s education.
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Teaching 'The New Jim Crow'
Teaching Tolerance teamed up with Michelle Alexander—author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness—to offer educators two FREE webinars exploring mass incarceration in the United States and how to teach about it.
September 23, 2014
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Teaching About Activism: The Era of Antebellum Reform
Read why this teacher thinks more social studies education should focus on activism in the past.
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Teaching About Stereotypes 2.0
This history teacher elevates his lessons on stereotyping to the next level. How? By engaging his students in reflective investigations of power, history and intention.
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Teaching My Daughter That Africa Is a Continent
When a country is compared to a continent, we effectively communicate that not all countries—or the people in them—are significant enough for us to name.
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Teach 2016
You want to teach about the election, but there's a lot of hostility and tension getting in the way. Here's your quick guide to surviving the weeks leading up to November 8.
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Teaching After the Napa Valley Wine Train Incident
After learning that a group of mostly African-American women was removed from a wine train for allegedly being too loud, this teacher reflects on how similar dynamics affect students in classrooms.
