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Teaching the Past to Improve the Future
Despite a range of opposition, educators are committed to teaching honest history in their classrooms—and students are eager to learn.
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Text-dependent Questions for "The Lockdown"
Text-dependent Questions accompany "The Lockdown."
July 18, 2017
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Toolkit for Check It Out!
Libraries are resources for students who need academic help as well as for those who want to fight for justice. Help your students make the most of their school or community library.
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BROWN V. BOARD: A New Milestone Decade
Can Brown's anniversary reawaken the spirit of common cause that fueled the Civil Rights Movement?
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Teachers, Check Your Texts
LGBTQ Asian identities need to be amplified in the school curriculum—and not just during a heritage month.
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Voting and Democracy Grants Roundup: Elementary and Middle School
TT Voting and Democracy Grants fund projects that encourage students to become empowered advocates for voting in their communities. Here are a few of our favorites.
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Power of the Vote: Lifting the Veil of White Supremacy, From the Ocoee Massacre to January 6
Civics education must include complete, honest histories and encourage young people to use their right to vote.
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Toolkit for “Be Your Own Historian”
Teach and learn about the Reconstruction era with resources—including videos, texts, lessons and a unit plan—from Facing History and Ourselves.
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Students Protest Alabama’s Immigration Law
For more than 20 years, Teaching Tolerance, based in Montgomery, Ala., has worked to help educators embrace the diverse classroom. We strive toward bias-free schools. We advocate acceptance, respect, equality and safety for all students.
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Lynching: White Supremacy, Terrorism and Black Resilience
Episode 6, Season 4 Black American experiences during Jim Crow were deeply affected by the ever-present threat of lynching and other forms of racist violence. Historian Kidada Williams amplifies perspectives from Black
October 26, 2021