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Issue 4, Spring 2023

A Refuge for LGBTQ+ Young People

Illustration of different people talking and drawing on a chalkboard.

Student-run Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) clubs are a federally protected space for young people to survive and thrive in the increasingly hostile anti-LGBTQ+ climate in schools and across the country.

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Learn From and Honor Black History

Black history is central to our nation’s story. These resources can help celebrate, teach and learn from Black history and experience all year.

February 1, 2024

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Basic Strategies

Educators from all grade levels and all parts of the country emphasize this point: You must speak up against every bigoted and prejudiced remark, every time it happens.

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Bullying & Bias

July 30, 2012

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The Fog Machine

This excerpt focuses on the lives of African American students during Freedom Summer. After reading Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech in class in 1963, students in main character C.J.'s school are asked to share their dreams at an assembly.

Susan Follett

Grade Level

6-8

Topic

Civil Rights Movement

Subject

Civics

History

June 9, 2015

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Tough Guise: By playing a role, I discovered myself

In this essay, Melvin Pichardo, a young aspiring actor, becomes so immersed in becoming a character for a role that he begins to question who he is as a person and what he feels and thinks.

Melvin Pichardo

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

December 22, 2015

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Life in the Iron Mills

This short story—acclaimed as one of the earliest examples of American realism—paints a bleak picture of industrial workers' lives in the mid-1800s.

Rebecca Harding Davis

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Class

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History

July 7, 2014

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Issue 49, Spring 2015

National Treasures

Help your students travel through time with primary sources from the Library of Congress.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 32, Fall 2007

'Because I Had a Turban'

In almost every public school in the United States, attitudes and behaviors in the classroom presume an unacknowledged, yet pervasive, Christian norm. How does this affect students who are not Christian?

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Religion

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March 21, 2019