Teaching Tolerance Magazine

Issue 37, Spring 2010

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The New Segregation

This issue of Teaching Tolerance looks at the promise of the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education: that all children will grow up attending integrated schools. The sad truth is that public schools are more segregated today than they were 40 years ago. Some schools are buying into the idea that separate can be equal—and not just along racial lines.

In this issue, find feature stories on gender-segregated classrooms, racially segregated schools, schools created for LGBT youth and their straight allies, and charter schools tailored to the needs of newly arrived immigrants.

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Features

The Only One

When you’re the only person of color in your class, school can become a struggle between two worlds.

Into the Mainstream

In third grade, Julia Horsman’s entire science project consisted of being herded outside with the other kids with disabilities and rolling soda cans down a ramp.

Unmaking Brown

America’s schools are more segregated now than they were in the late 1960s.

'Homo High'

Some people argue “gay-friendly” schools offer needless segregation. Others say they’re the only chance some kids have to make it.

Check the Labels

A simple writing assignment sharpens students’ minds — and challenges their biases.

Whose Student Is She?

No Child Left Behind is plunging many English language learners into the educational mainstream — and sometimes getting them in over their heads.

Departments

Perspectives

How We Live Our Lives

Teaching Tolerance director Lecia J. Brooks reflects on the still segregated nature of our public schools.
One World

Baha'u'llah

Download and post this inspiring quote in your classroom.