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TT Awardee Spotlight: Barrie Moorman
The application window for the 2016 Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Teaching is open! Read how this award has impacted Barrie Moorman, a 2014 awardee.
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Informational
Out of Auschwitz
Samuel Pisar, a survivor of Auschwitz, recounts his liberation at age 16 from the most notorious Nazi death camp.
July 5, 2014
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Your Students Love Social Media ... and So Can You
Want to engage students? Meet them on society’s newest public square.
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You CAN Teach About Religion in Public School!
The First Amendment defines the parameters of including religious content in U.S. public school classrooms, but teachers still wonder: What does religion as content look like?
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And the Winners Are...
Meet the recipients of the Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Teaching.
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School Vouchers and the Efforts to Undermine Public Education
Vouchers are part of a broader effort to dismantle public schools, moving public taxpayer funds into private for-profit institutions. This is the third of three articles on public schools as a common good, which explore the possibilities and threats to public education.
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Class Action
Students learn rights and responsibilities through law-related education.
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A Teacher’s Letter to President Trump
This elementary school teacher hopes that the president can visit her school to see and learn about a different strategy for keeping our children safe.
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Twice the Distance
First-In-Family Immigrant Students Face a Double Challenge When Applying to Colleges.
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Literature
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.
July 7, 2014