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The Study of Racial Representation via Television Commercial Analysis
In my Latino/Latina literature class, my primary intent is to help my students see the inequities created in our society by pervasive racism and discrimination. This project asks that the students watch two hours of
August 30, 2012
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Teach This: HBCUs Are Not Pioneers of School Choice
This week’s statement from Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos on historically black colleges and universities is a prime example of whitewashing U.S. history. Classroom teachers for grades 6-12, however, can use this moment as a teaching opportunity.
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The School Year That Changed a Nation
The Little Rock Nine: An Interview with Minnijean Brown Trickey
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#dontshoot
The tragic loss of Michael Brown presents an opportunity to help students connect with our collective humanity.
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Engaging Students in Social Justice With ‘Zines
As a graduate student, this teacher tapped into her middle schoolers’ energy and creativity while having them think deeply about community needs.
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Race Conversation Must Go Deeper
When I was in fifth grade and new to suburbia, my teacher introduced the concepts of racism, civil rights and fairness. And she began the task of helping 10-years olds—all of us white—learn how to talk about race in constructive ways. I’d moved from a gritty urban neighborhood where whites, blacks and Puerto Ricans lived together rather warily. My parents maintained a chilly silence on the issue of race, although they forbade racial epithets; on the street I heard plenty. In this place, the black kids came mostly from the projects, the Puerto Ricans lived in apartments and the better-off among the white families might have an entire house. I knew that race divided.
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Students Say Teach the Truth
An LFJ award winner centers her students’ perspectives in the current conversation about racism, social justice education and the need for an inclusive national narrative.