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Announcing the 2012 Mix It Up at Lunch Model Schools |
Teaching Tolerance has named 77
schools—25 more than last year—from across the country as Mix It Up Model
Schools for their exemplary efforts to... |
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Be Recognized for Culturally Responsive Teaching |
Teaching Tolerance is now accepting
applications for the 2012 Excellence in Culturally Responsive Teaching award.
This award recognizes educators who... |
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Making Black History Month Memorable |
We asked our 25 Teaching Tolerance Advisory Board members what advice they would offer to fellow educators about Black History Month. Each of these... |
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Alabama NAME Conference Seeking Proposals |
The second annual Alabama Region 4 Conference on
Multicultural Education is now seeking conference proposals through Feb.
17. The NAME... |
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Celebrate Women This Black History Month |
Historian Carter G. Woodson established the first Negro
History Week in 1926—a celebration that later became Black History Month.
The Association for... |
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Durham Schools Agree to End Discriminatory Policies |
We were encouraged to see that the school system
in Durham, N.C., last week agreed to end discriminatory practices that prevent
Latino students from... |
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Quiz Yourself on the Civil Rights Movement |
The struggle to achieve civil rights for African
Americans was one of the defining events of U.S. history. But how much do you
know about it? And how... |
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Most States Get an ‘F’ on Civil Rights Education |
The
civil rights movement is one of the defining events of U.S. history, and yet
most states fail badly when it comes to teaching the movement to... |
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52 Recognized as Mix It Up Model Schools |
Teaching Tolerance has named 52 schools from
across the country as Mix It Up Model Schools for their exemplary efforts to
foster respect and... |
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The Obstacles Faced by Children of Color |
It’s widely understood that African-American kids—and other
children of color—get fewer opportunities in life than white kids. But still,
it is... |
