How to Teach American History in a Divided Country
Chuck Yarborough on helping kids make connections between the past and the present
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Working for Racial Justice as a White Teacher
Robert Roth on an anti-racist approach to high-school history
What Teacher Friends Talk About When Students Aren’t Listening
“I don’t know how I’m going to get through the day. I’m not in the place that I need to be, to be positive for the kids. Give me a boost; I need a laugh.”
The Children Who Desegregated America’s Schools
A special project from The Atlantic
The New York Town That Tried to Stop Desegregation
Frederick K. Brewington’s education came at the end of a bitter civil-rights battle that engulfed New York State, more than a decade after Brown v. Board of Education.
The Persistence of Segregation in South Carolina
Millicent Brown changed Charleston, then watched it stay the same.
The Quiet Desegregation of Alabama’s Public Schools
Sonnie Hereford IV desegregated Alabama’s public schools in 1963. He was only 6 years old.
The Undoing of a Tennessee Town
Jo Ann Allen Boyce and 11 other students desegregated their high school in Clinton, Tennessee. Then the riots came.
The Limits of Desegregation in Washington, D.C.
Hugh Price and his family fought for him to be one of the first Black students at his all-white high school in Washington, D.C. But once he was there, he “couldn’t wait for it to be over.”
What Is Good Teaching?
Over the past two years, I talked with veteran educators across the country as I tried to answer this question.