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Celebrating the Best of 2017

As we look ahead to the new year, we're also taking a moment to look back at some highlights and a sampling of reader favorites from the last 12 months.

The Best of 2017
Presenting Teaching Tolerance's Digital Literacy Framework
A Look Back at 2017’s TT Educator Grants

December 18, 2017

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February 28, 2022

Teaching Reconstruction Is Absolutely Necessary

Banner text: Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth about Reconstruction

Most state standards don’t accurately represent the Reconstruction era. The Zinn Education Project’s new Teach Reconstruction campaign and report highlight why truthful teaching about this period is a must.

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Slavery Rights & Activism

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October 27, 2020

Teach This: Voter Suppression and Literacy Tests

Illustration of people with masks in the classroom.

Use this excerpt from ‘One Person, No Vote: How Not All Voters Are Treated Equally’ to lead a conversation with students about the history of voter suppression in the United States before the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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Rights & Activism

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On Being Brought From Africa to America

In this poem, the speaker explores the relationship between her Christian beliefs and her enslavement. She reminds her readers of the Christian belief that anyone, regardless of their race, can follow Christianity and be saved.

Phillis Wheatley

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9-12

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Religion Rights & Activism

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History

Geography

July 7, 2014

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Understanding Voter Suppression in Today’s Election Process

Strategies to suppress voting continue to undermine our democracy today and have increased over the past two decades in response to political participation becoming more pluralistic.

October 11, 2024

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Race Against Time

Dozens of racially motivated murders took place in the South during the 1950s and 1960s. Time is running out to solve these cold cases.

Shaila Dewan

Grade Level

9-12

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Civics

History

Economics

Geography

July 5, 2014

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Eshe Price

Eshe Price is a Ph.D. candidate in urban education in the Department of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Education at Rowan University. Her dissertation examines the schooling experiences of Black girls in predominantly white, suburban and rural communities through mixed-methods research. Through her research, Eshe aims to position Black girls as the experts to guide support for Black girls in schools. Recently, she received dissertation funding from the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division G. Additionally, Eshe is interested in the use of critical quantitative

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September 30, 2010

Anti-Gay Bullying, Suicide and the Need for Empathy

September has been a grim month. Three boys—15-year old Billy Lucas in Indiana, and 13-year olds Asher Brown in Texas and Seth Walsh in California—took their own lives after being subjected to relentless anti-gay bullying in school. And then, just one day before this miserable September ended, news came of another tragedy. This time, Tyler Clementi, an 18-year old college student, believed it was better to jump off the George Washington Bridge into the Hudson River 600 feet below rather than live through being outed and humiliated at the hands of his homophobic roommate who streamed video of Tyler’s sexual encounter with a “dude” for the world to see.

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Bullying & Bias Gender & Sexual Identity

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April 16, 2010

National Day of Silence: Shutting Up for Justice

Today marks the 15th annual National Day of Silence, organized by the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). This student-led civil protest will unite LGBT youth and their allies in thousands of middle schools, high schools and colleges nationwide.

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Gender & Sexual Identity Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism

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Issue 43, Spring 2013

The School-to-Prison Pipeline

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Policies and practices that favor incarceration over education do us all a grave injustice.

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