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Perspectives

Number 42: Fall 2012

“Always give a word

What’s in a Name?

Number 41: Spring 2012

Among our Frequently Asked Questions, it is number one. Whether we’re on the road or here in Montgomery, the Teaching Tolerance staff can count on responding to it at least once a week. It comes during face-to-face conversations, via email, on Facebook, in letters and even—occasionally—in a phone call. “You should change your name,” we’re told. “Tolerance isn’t enough.”

20 Years of Change

Number 40: Fall 2011

A look at our cover will tell you that this is Issue 40 of Teaching Tolerance magazine. It’s published twice yearly, so that round number neatly marks the end of our first 20 years.

A look at our cover will tell you that this is Issue 40 of Teaching Tolerance magazine. It’s published twice yearly, so that round number neatly marks the end of our first 20 years.

Imagining the Lives of Others

Number 39: Spring 2011

In the words of Atticus Finch, the stories here urge us and our students to “consider things from [another person’s] point of view … climb into his skin and walk around in it.”

“As we tell stories about the lives of others, we learn how to imagine what another creature might feel in response to various events.

Stories from the Country

Number 38: Fall 2010

As it turns out, ignorance about rural schools is pretty widespread. We soon discovered that no one—not even the federal government—has a single definition for what constitutes "rural."

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How We Live Our Lives

Number 37: Spring 2010

The great promise of the 1954 landmark U. S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education was that children would grow up together in integrated schools. They would prove the segregationists wrong. Black children and white children would learn to respect one another as equals and bring down the walls of racial separation. Through the efforts of our children, our nation would live up to the ideals of equality and justice for all.

The great promise of the 1954 landmark U. S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education was that children would grow up together in integrated schools.

Eyes on the Prize

Number 32: Fall 2007

'One should use praise to recognize what one is not.' -Elias Canetti, Nobel Laureate in Literature

"We won … again!"

'We Share One World'

Number 30: Fall 2006
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'Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.'
-- Charlotte Bronte, 1816-1855

This is the 30th issue of the semiannual Teaching Tolerance magazine -- 15 years of publishing a magazine devoted to promoting respect for differences and appreciation of dive
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