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Teaching the Value of Work
The shaming of an actor who took a job at a grocery store reminds us to rethink how we teach students about success, equity and hard work.
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Celebrating Banned Books Means Advocating for LGBTQ Texts
During #BannedBooksWeek, educators should look to the present as well as the past.
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A Lie Nailed
This Appeal editorial from 1893 refutes the description in the Chicago Herald of conditions experienced by African Americans while traveling on Southern railroads.
June 22, 2022
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The Right to Vote (Transcript)
This transcript of NBC’s 2004 story “The Right to Vote” highlights the events leading up to the Selma-to-Montgomery march, with firsthand accounts from Rep. John Lewis.
October 26, 2011
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The Names On The Board
An Ohio teacher dares students to envision a new community.
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Candles in Our Windows
A play based on real events in Billings, Mont., illuminates issues of tolerance and understanding for young students.
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Fannie Lou Hamer’s Testimony at the 1964 Democratic Convention (Transcript)
This piece is to accompany Unsung Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement and African Americans Face and Fight Obstacles to Voting.Watch the video here.When a group of African-American delegates from Mississippi demanded to be seated at the 1964 Democratic Convention in Atlantic City, the moving testimony by Fannie Lou Hamer made this former sharecropper a national spokeswoman for civil rights overnight.
October 26, 2011
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Escalating U.S. Poverty Rate Sends Shockwaves
This 2010 news segment considers the cause and impact of the rising poverty level in the United States.
July 7, 2014
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Stand Up and Be Counted
An important date awaits in April, and it’s coming sooner than April 15.The Census Bureau has designated April 1 as "National Census Day," the date for mailing census forms to bureau offices. Households that don’t get their forms sent off by then will get a visit from a census taker.
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Analyzing the School Holiday Calendar
These activities ask students to engage with the question of what an equitable school calendar looks like and how to make their own school calendar more inclusive.
May 1, 2017
