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Teach Truth: Resist Efforts to Censor and Whitewash History

The accurate history of American slavery should be taught to children in age-appropriate and honest ways that develop critical thinking, while recognizing that Black history is U.S. history and goes beyond slavery. These LFJ publications—including Teaching Hard History: American Slavery, a K-12 curriculum framework—reinforce the importance of teaching this history honestly and provide resources for educators and parents.

  • Teaching Hard History: American Slavery
  • Survival, Resistance and Resilience
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Inclusive Education for All Our Children

Justice. Equity. Diversity. Inclusivity. These are the foundational principles of a thriving, multiracial and inclusive democracy. Such a democracy is essential in building a more just future for all our children. And to build that future, we need inclusive education to develop understanding of these foundational principles.

  • Tips for Advocating for Inclusive Education
  • The Promise of Inclusive Education
  • Exclusion Is Unconstitutional
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National Standards

Standards Alignment Made Easy At Learning for Justice, we recognize the importance of both rigor and relevance—and we also recognize that content standards are an important tool for many educators. That’s why we’ve
July 24, 2017
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Zaretta Hammond

Zaretta Hammond is a teacher educator and the author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students. She has a passion for books and teaching reading. She blogs at www.ready4rigor.com.
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Jen Cort

Jen Cort is the founder of Jen Cort Educational Consulting. Her educational passion is to create safe spaces for kids to be seen and heard at all times while learning to use their voices and be visible in ways that work for them. Cort helps schools in this work by drawing on years of experience as a division head of an independent school, clinical social worker, school counselor and author.
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Raised By Women

In her poem, Kelly Norman Ellis brings to life a vivid picture of the kind of women she was surrounded and brought up by during her childhood in Mississippi. The poem's speaker takes you down south and makes you feel like a guest at the kitchen table by way of her descriptions.
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Kelly Norman Ellis
Grade Level
6-8
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Gender & Sexual Identity
Social Justice Domain
Identity
January 5, 2015