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August 22, 2012

Hooray for LGBT Allies

After the Southern Poverty Law Center responded to a plea for help from students in Savannah, Tenn., we’re happy to report that students successfully wore pro-LGBT slogans at school last week without resistance and with mostly positive responses from classmates.

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Gender & Sexual Identity Bullying & Bias

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October 7, 2015

Texas, Textbooks and Truth

A McGraw-Hill textbook is under fire for its characterization of enslaved people as “workers”—the latest example of our national unwillingness to face white supremacist history.

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Issue 49, Spring 2015

Ferguson, U.S.A.

Illustration of an epicenter surrounding Ferguson

Hardships faced by communities in crisis are national issues worth teaching.

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Issue 26, Fall 2004

Voices of Columbine

Five years after the tragedy that shook our nation, the people of Columbine High School reflect on growth and healing.

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Rights & Activism

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August 5, 2019

From Mourning to Action

After this weekend’s shootings in El Paso and Dayton, we ask: How do educators keep tragedy and terror from overwhelming them as they fight for justice?

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What Teachers Need to Know About the "Alt-Right"

Join Teaching Tolerance for this webinar on things you should know about the history of "alt-right" and how to spot it in your school.

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Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism

September 19, 2017

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Issue 13, Spring 1998

Rising to the Challenge

A Louisiana Children's Museum exhibit takes the "dis" out of disability.

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Ability

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Commit to Building a Just Future

Children should have the right to safe, affirming and inclusive schools. To uplift Banned Books Week and to honor LGBTQ+ History Month, support young people’s freedom to read, learn and build a just future.

Exclusion Is Unconstitutional
Building a Just Future
ChangeMakers for an Inclusive and Just Future

October 2, 2023

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March 27, 2019

Hate at School: February 2019

Close up of young African-American child.

Instead of lessons about black history and culture, February brought slurs, blackface, threats and even violence at some U.S. schools.

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Religion Gender & Sexual Identity Bullying & Bias

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Spotlighting—and Quantifying—the Problem

No one knows the extent of the problem nationally. In 2018, the SPLC’s Learning for Justice project, then Teaching Tolerance, collected hundreds of news reports detailing hate in schools directed toward individuals or

April 23, 2019