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May Is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month!

As you plan for the upcoming Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we encourage you to celebrate and teach the diversity of AAPI identities. Then, keep going by incorporating AAPI voices into your curricula all year long. You can begin with these resources.

Teaching Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage
Hawaiians Live in Aloha
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April 26, 2021

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Music Reconstructed: Dom Flemons, Black Cowboys and the American West

Installment 2 From ranches to railroads, learn about the often unrecognized role that African Americans played in the range cattle industry, as Pullman porters and in law enforcement. In part two of this special series

March 18, 2022

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March 1, 2018

We Rest Our Case: American Slavery Is Widely Mistaught

Abolitionists William Still, Sojourner Truth, William Loyd Garrison, unidentified male and female slaves, and Black Union soldiers in front of American flag

After hearing from skeptics about our Teaching Hard History report findings, TT Director Maureen Costello came across striking new evidence that the project is necessary.

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Slavery

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January 2, 2019

Open Secrets in First-Grade Math: Teaching About White Supremacy on American Currency

Shattered piggy bank laying on top of a large collection of U.S. currency coins.

Studying money is a staple of first-grade math. This teacher used it as an opportunity to educate about—and push back against—sexism, racism and white supremacy.

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Race & Ethnicity Gender & Sexual Identity Bullying & Bias

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Amplify Asian American Identities Beyond a Heritage Month

This edition of The Moment ensures your classroom reflects the diversity of Asian-American students and to help them feel seen year-round.

I Am Asian American
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(In)Visible Identity

August 27, 2018

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White House Data Paints New Portrait of Modern American Women

This 2011 news segment reports on recent data on the state of economic equality for women. Despite the rise in higher education for women, men continue to out earn women.

Savannah Guthrie

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6-8 9-12

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Class Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

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Civics

Economics

July 3, 2014

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Massachusetts Body of Liberties (1641)

This document illustrates the ways in which the Massachusetts colony created a legal framework for slavery, reflecting religious and race-based reasoning.

Massachusetts General Court

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6-8 9-12

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Slavery

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History

January 4, 2018

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Abraham Lincoln & Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship

This text explores the relationship between Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, two self-made men whose lives intersected near the end of America's Civil War.

Russell Freedman

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

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Race & Ethnicity Class

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History

July 10, 2017

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August 29, 2017

For White Allies in Search of a Solution to American Racism / When Folks of Color Are Exhausted

Teaching Tolerance students engaging in discussion

Racism, white privilege and white supremacy are challenges that people of color neither created nor should be expected to resolve. This scholar encourages white allies to step up.

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Race & Ethnicity Rights & Activism

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Facing the School Dropout Dilemma: The interaction of sexual orientation with school dropout rates

The American Psychological Association (APA) published “Facing the School Dropout Dilemma: The interaction of sexual orientation with school dropout rates” on its website in 2012. The APA is widely regarded as the most prominent professional organization for psychologists in the United States.

American Psychological Association

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

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Gender & Sexual Identity

July 5, 2014

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