A special youth engagement issue of Teaching Tolerance magazine features exclusive essays by John McCain and Barack Obama urging today's students to get involved in their communities.
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November 3, 2008 - Middle-school students tour a simulated refugee camp in the heart of Los Angeles – and ponder the tough questions that confront the world’s 42 million displaced persons. If you had to leave your home immediately, what would you take? How do you feed a family on a small ration of rice, beans and oil?
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Are your students still at odds over the presidential election? This lesson plan can help them find common ground. Go
The new Teaching Tolerance kit, Viva la Causa, focuses on one of the seminal events in the march for human rights — the grape strike and boycott led by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta in the 1960s.
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Students across the nation participated in SPLC's 'Mix It Up at Lunch Day' on Nov. 13. See what students around the country (and around the world) did.
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November 10, 2008 – Tolerance is contagious, and just a few hours of contact with a person of another race or ethnic background can have a big effect, according to a study at Stony Brook University. Go
November 18, 2008 – Schools are hurting as a result of the sudden crumbling of the economy. A recent report by the American Association of School Administrators shows us the extent of the damage.
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