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Victory in Ward 8: Orr Parents Organize for New Building and New Leadership
Laila Patrick held her breath in anticipation, waiting to hear her name called as her two children played on the floor nearby. Ms. Patrick sat with her muscles tensed, at the edge of her seat, with...
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Hurston/Wright Foundation 13th Annual Legacy Award Winners
The Hurston/Wright Foundation has announced the winners for the 2014 Legacy Awards in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry at the 13th annual Legacy Award Ceremony. The Legacy Awards have recognized...
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Yale Law School Merit Awards a “Travesty of the Highest Order”
“It is a travesty of the highest order to honor as ‘meritorious’ those who openly and notoriously trample the Constitution,” said Yale Law School alum Timothy L. Jenkins (’64) in response to Yale’s...
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Board Member Annual House Party Raises Friends and Funds
Teaching for Change board chair Kate Tindle with book she contributed to on race and education. When Kate Tindle first joined the Teaching for Change board in 2000, there was no doubt that her...
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Central America Workshop in Mt. Rainier
On Saturday, teachers, parents, and other community members in Mount Rainier, Maryland stepped into the shoes of key people in Central American history and literature. This pre-viewing activity was for...
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Indies First on Small Business Saturday
For the 2014 holiday season, bestselling author Neil Gaiman and musician-author Amanda Palmer called upon their fellow authors to get behind Indies First at independent bookstores around the country...
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On the Second Front of the BlackLivesMatter Movement
By Ayo Magwood I like to think of myself as a socially and racially conscious African-American, and as a social justice teacher. Yet I haven’t been to a single #BlackLivesMatter protest: not a single...
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Black History 360 at the Schomburg Center
Teaching for Change presented in July of 2014 for the second year in a row at the Black History 360: Schomburg Summer Education Institute. Thanks to our summer intern, Sarah Slichter, here is a report...
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Teaching for Change in 2014
This has been a year of mourning, resistance, and hope. We mourned for the lives of so many people of color killed by the police with impunity. And we were inspired by the resistance that started in...
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Bookstore Highlights 2014
Here are some highlights from the year 2014 at Teaching for Change’s indie bookstore at Busboys and Poets (14th&V). Next year we will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the bookstore and the 25th...
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Victory in Ward 8: Orr Parents Organize for New Building and New Leadership
Laila Patrick held her breath in anticipation, waiting to hear her name called as her two children played on the floor nearby. Ms. Patrick sat with her muscles tensed, at the edge of her seat, with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hurston/Wright Foundation 13th Annual Legacy Award Winners
The Hurston/Wright Foundation has announced the winners for the 2014 Legacy Awards in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry at the 13th annual Legacy Award Ceremony. The Legacy Awards have recognized...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Yale Law School Merit Awards a “Travesty of the Highest Order”
“It is a travesty of the highest order to honor as ‘meritorious’ those who openly and notoriously trample the Constitution,” said Yale Law School alum Timothy L. Jenkins (’64) in response to Yale’s...
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Bringing Freedom Summer to Students in Starkville
“I’d only heard of Medgar Evers. I did not know the names and stories of so many other Civil Rights Movement activists in Mississippi,” said one the dozens of teachers in workshops offered by Teaching...
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Board Member Annual House Party Raises Friends and Funds
Teaching for Change board chair Kate Tindle with book she contributed to on race and education. When Kate Tindle first joined the Teaching for Change board in 2000, there was no doubt that her...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Central America Workshop in Mt. Rainier
On Saturday, teachers, parents, and other community members in Mount Rainier, Maryland stepped into the shoes of key people in Central American history and literature. This pre-viewing activity was for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
On the Second Front of the BlackLivesMatter Movement
By Ayo Magwood I like to think of myself as a socially and racially conscious African-American, and as a social justice teacher. Yet I haven’t been to a single #BlackLivesMatter protest: not a single...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Black History 360 at the Schomburg Center
Teaching for Change presented in July of 2014 for the second year in a row at the Black History 360: Schomburg Summer Education Institute. Thanks to our summer intern, Sarah Slichter, here is a report...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Teaching for Change in 2014
This has been a year of mourning, resistance, and hope. We mourned for the lives of so many people of color killed by the police with impunity. And we were inspired by the resistance that started in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bookstore Highlights 2014
Here are some highlights from the year 2014 at Teaching for Change’s indie bookstore at Busboys and Poets (14th&V). Next year we will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the bookstore and the 25th...
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