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Issue 61, Spring 2019

Speaking Up Without Tearing Down

Person with a fist for a head crossing their arms as multiple fingers point at them.

A veteran human rights educator explains the value of teaching students to call each other in rather than out.

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Molly Smith

Molly Smith has completed her elementary special education certification at Northern Michigan University and is involved educational research in the fields of math, the arts and technology. She also is entering the profession as a first-year teacher.

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July 6, 2022

Don’t Stop Talking About Gun Violence

A child's feet with sneakers on them stand in front of words that include protect, students, mass shooting, cries, brutality, activism, walkout and more etched in chalk on the ground.

We must push for more restrictive gun laws to change the cycle of mass shootings, collective outrage and minimal action.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 66, Spring 2021

Mathematics in Context: The Pedagogy of Liberation

Social justice education isn’t limited to humanities courses. Two math educators explain how their commitment to equity informs the way they teach.

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The Fire Horse Girl

In this excerpt, the narrator, a young Chinese girl, poses as a boy with forged papers, trying to gain entry into the United States. When she realizes the American immigration agents are checking identity papers at the dock, she fights past them and runs for her life.

Kay Honeyman

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Immigration

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Civics

History

July 7, 2014

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Issue 11, Spring 1997

Grassroots Connections

4-H renews its mission by cultivating diversity.

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Bullying & Bias

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April 28, 2014

This is What Privilege Looks Like

Impact and intention both matter when talking about school policies.

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Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism

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Joseph L. Graves Jr.

Graves is the associate dean for research and professor of biological sciences at the Joint School of Nanoscience & Nanoengineering, administered by North Carolina A&T State University and the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

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Irina Starovoytova

Irina Y. Starovoytova, a teacher of English and American Studies at Tambov School #6 in Tambov, Russia, created this retelling of a traditional Russian fable especially for Teaching Tolerance.

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February 15, 2012

Bias Makes LGBT Equality Tough to Teach

Twenty-eight teachers in my master’s level class silently moved en masse to the right side of the room to signify that they would teach the civil rights movement to their elementary students. In fact, most considered it negligent to ignore this historic movement that brought about the end of segregation in our country.

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Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism