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Lessons From Home
Education reformer Lisa Delpit encourages teachers to discover who their students are outside the classroom.
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Talking About Race and Racism
What do educators need to participate in an open and honest conversation about the content of The New Jim Crow? Effective instruction about The New Jim Crow requires advanced preparation for how to talk about race and racism.
October 13, 2014
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Students Weigh in on the Golden Globes, #MeToo and #TimesUp
After watching highlights from the Golden Globes, this high school class engaged in some deep discussions about advocacy.
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Reframing the Movement
Episode 1, Season 3 Teaching the civil rights movement accurately and effectively requires deconstructing the myths and misconceptions around it. Most people are familiar with a very specific version of the movement that
August 5, 2020
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Proposed Bill: An Ethnic Studies Ban "on Steroids"
Exploring our differences does not divide us; it highlights our identities and reveals our shared humanity.
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Sources | Ten Myths About Immigration
A list of sources that help to dispel common immigration myths.
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‘Usually Offensive’
red·skin \ˈred-ˌskin\(noun) usually offensive : American IndianNote the “usually offensive” — a warning from one of the more neutral arbitrators of American English, Merriam-Webster. “Redskin” is a pejorative term, and should be used with caution, if at all.
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Teaching the Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act (CRA) of 1964, the conditions that led to it and its legacy are the subjects of a powerful four-part webinar series co-facilitated by Teaching Tolerance and the Library of Congress.
February 6, 2015
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For White Allies in Search of a Solution to American Racism / When Folks of Color Are Exhausted
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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Insurrection in Currituck
The newspaper article relays the secondhand story of enslaved people fleeing from a plantation and joining up with Irish laborers in pursuit of “their freedom.” The escaping party was found, and the Irish “abolitionists” were denounced.
December 15, 2017