Grades 9 to 12

22 January 2013 This lesson is part of The Role of Gay Men and Lesbians in the Civil Rights Movement series. This series introduces ...

25 January 2013 Honoring the far-reaching contribution of women authors. In her book Silences , first ...

24 January 2013 The history of a proud indigenous people during WWII. Poised in the midst of Beringia, about ...

21 January 2013 Students, parents and administrators have hotly debated the issue of school uniforms for decades. Proponents of school uniforms believe that they save money, ...

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21 January 2013 Educators have long used music to inspire, engage and teach their students. Whether by tapping into popular culture or reaching back through history, songs and ...

21 January 2013 In his 2003 ASCD Educational Leadership article, Creating a School Community , author and educator Eric Schaps states, ”a growing body of research confirms the ...

21 January 2013 The school-to-prison pipeline represents an intersection of complex issues, including race, class, education and the American justice system. Learn more ...

11 January 2013 In the majority of schools, the response to discipline issues is driven by administrators, counselors and, in a growing trend, by school resource officers and law ...

11 January 2013 In the majority of schools, the response to discipline issues is driven by administrators, counselors and, in a growing trend, by school resource officers and ...

21 January 2013 When the authors of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution wrote, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free ...

21 January 2013 (Teacher Note: Bring in several magazine photographs of unknown people who represent a variety of races, ages, religious backgrounds, jobs, etc. Number ...

14 January 2013 Modeled after the 1964 Mississippi Freedom schools, which were designed to change a community by giving residents the tools to develop leaders and exercise political ...

11 January 2013 Perspectives for a Diverse America is a K-12 literacy-based anti-bias curriculum aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and ...

11 January 2013 Joe Golossi To begin exploring the human cost of food, my eighth graders read excerpts from ...

11 January 2013 This lesson is part of The Role of Gay Men and Lesbians in the Civil Rights Movement series. This series ...

2 January 2013 Many accounts about the civil rights movement discuss class and gender tension within the African-American Freedom Struggle. However, the issue of sexuality, and the ...

7 January 2013 This lesson is part of  The Role of Gay Men and Lesbians in the Civil Rights Movement  series. ...

7 January 2013 This lesson is part of The Role of Gay Men and Lesbians in the Civil Rights Movement series.  ...

You’ve seen the Need to Know election special, “ America by the Numbers ,” which focuses on the small Georgia town of Clarkston. Like many communities across the nation, Clarkston is changing. As little as ...

Especially during election season, American politicians like to accuse each other of backing ideas and policies that are “outside the mainstream.” But what really characterizes that mainstream? And does it ...

“Whites should only be afraid of becoming a minority if it’s within the old definition of what a minority means—marginalized, left out, disenfranchised. The new American mainstream is inclusive. Everybody is ...

This lesson is part of The Little Rock Battle for School Integration series, which introduces students to the actors and events central to the 1957 Little Rock Central High School desegregation crisis. ...

This lesson is part of The Little Rock Battle for School Integration series, which introduces students to the actors and events central to the 1957 Little Rock Central High School desegregation crisis. ...

This lesson is part of The Little Rock Battle for School Integration series. The series introduces students to the actors and events central the 1957 Little Rock Central High School desegregation crisis.  ...

This lesson—the first in The Little Rock Battle for School Integration series—introduces students to important actors and events in the 1957 Little Rock Central High School desegregation crisis. ...

Most textbook accounts of the 1950s and 1960s civil rights movement focus on the actions of Martin Luther King Jr. and epic events in Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia. However, before Birmingham, Freedom ...

“Teaching the Levees” is an instructional resource provided by Columbia University Teacher’s College to support democratic dialogue and civic engagement about the Hurricane Katrina disaster. The curriculum model provides opportunities for ...

A United Nations role-play brings to life the challenges of creating social justice and helps students learn to use opponents’ statements to bolster their own arguments. Background: Should child soldiers be prosecuted for war crimes? This essential ...

Students are often told they speak incorrectly or use bad grammar. Telling students of color in rural or urban areas that they speak “incorrectly” or “ghetto” can have a negative effect internally. I give students in my class ...