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StoryCorps: We Were Caught
“The only way that I could see out of that situation was to take my life.”
July 8, 2014
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Literature
We Live By What We See at Night
In this poem, the speaker addresses his father, recalling for him the lush Puerto Rican landscape that he grew up in. Now, this green can be seen only in his father's dreams.
July 3, 2014
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Sikh Eyechart for America
This cartoon eye chart tests for perfect vision, which sees beyond stereotypes and bias and encourages a lens of compassion.
November 18, 2014
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Separate Is Not Equal
These two images depict segregated classrooms before the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
September 3, 2015
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Teaching Social Justice in Elementary Music Class
With 40 minutes—or fewer—to spend with students each week, this elementary music teacher struggled to teach meaningful content. Then she began asking herself, "Who do I want my students to be when they leave my classroom?"
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Support LGBTQ Students and Educators as Our Rights Are Decided
As the Supreme Court hears cases to decide whether federal law protects LGBTQ people from employment discrimination, one queer educator explains how his colleagues can be accomplices in the fight for LGBTQ civil rights.
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Text-Dependent Questions for “Mass Incarceration as a Form of Racialized Social Control”
These Text-Dependent Questions accompany “Mass Incarceration as a Form of Racialized Social Control.”
July 18, 2017
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“Holden Caulfield is a typical teenager”?
When this teacher’s classroom of white students identified The Catcher in the Rye protagonist Holden Caulfield as a “typical teenager,” she knew she needed to broaden their idea of what “typical” teenage problems look like.
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A Message From Our Director
At the end of July, a group of students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School came through Montgomery on a regional March for Our Lives tour. Before they left Florida, they had visited every congressional district to
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Informational
Kevin Connolly Will See You Now
Journalist Christopher Solomon writes of his interview with Kevin Connolly, a writer, photographer and medal-winning skiier, who was born without legs.
December 31, 2015