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In early 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders continued plans for a Poor People’s Campaign. It would take place in the spring in Washington, D.C. The poor and those in solidarity with them would take up temporary residence and march peacefully on the Capitol and advocate for substantial anti-poverty legislation from Congress. They would demand jobs, healthcare and decent housing.

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General Mills recently ran an ad for Cheerios cereal featuring an interracial couple and their child. This is cause for celebration and an opportunity to help students explore race and expand media literacy. Unfortunately, not all viewers saw it that way.

Engage fourth- through eighth-graders in close readings and read-alouds of Margaret Auguste’s story “The Day I Swam into a New World” with the activities and audio recording in this toolkit.

Horrified at a fourth-grade teacher’s hateful Facebook rant after the pool incident in McKinney, Texas, this TT staffer realizes she could have been just like that teacher—if not for strong anti-bias education.

"There’s nothing wrong with the way your grandparents talk,” my elementary school teachers used to say. “Standard English is different. Not better or worse. It’s just a way of talking that you need to know.”

Maribel Valdez Gonzalez explains why project-based learning is key to engaging, authentic, equitable education.