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Issue 11, Spring 1997

Other People's Shoes

A secondary teacher uses multiple perspectives to examine the past.

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Bullying & Bias

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Issue 64, Spring 2020

The New YA

Illustration of a young person reading under a yellow light while surrounded by a scene from the book they are reading.

Young readers’ editions can change the way we teach history.

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Issue 26, Fall 2004

"There's No Lesson Plan for Tragedy"

Teaching in the face of the unthinkable.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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Issue 5, Fall 2023

A Time of Transformation and Possibility

The United States has championed human rights around the globe but needs to consistently ensure those protections domestically.

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No Place to Pray

In this essay, the author details the kind of systematic persecution that Hutterites endured after settling colonies in the West in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Learning for Justice Staff

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9-12

Topic

Religion Rights & Activism

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Civics

History

Economics

Geography

April 28, 2016

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Issue 35, Spring 2009

Our Challenges as a People

Barack Obama with US flag in the background

Using Barack Obama's historic speech on race in the classroom.

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Issue 3, Fall 2022

Visibility is Power

Elementary educator Skye Tooley emphasizes the power of LGBTQ+ visibility in fostering positive spaces of understanding and empathy where all students feel visible and accepted.

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Issue 44, Summer 2013

When Bad Things Happen

Taller figure with their hand on the shoulder of a smaller person standing next to them. The background is split between a brighter sky and a stormy dark sky.

Help kids navigate our sometimes-violent world.

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Joi Miner has been writing for as long as she can remember, but began her career as a spoken word artist. After making it to the finals in the Turner South “My South Speaks” competition, she appeared in a commercial and won slams at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and the Green Mill in Chicago. Miner has four poetry collections under her belt: Graffitied Gypsy (2003), Fun House Mirrors (2005), Socioanthropologicfeminisms (2010) and Outrun The Night (2012). (Hear her read “ The Day I Swam Into a New World,” Teaching Tolerance’s first-ever audio Story Corner.)A domestic violence and sexual

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August 31, 2012

Helping Hunter Spanjer Keep His Name

Grand Island Public School District (GIPS) in Nebraska wanted 3-year-old Hunter Spanjer to change his name because they said it violated the school's weapons policy. I am outraged. But more than that, I realize that students like Hunter need advocates.

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Ability

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