Ideas This Week

In this guest post, Nelson Graves, founder of News-Decoder, demonstrates how biases work and then provides educators with an exercise to help students challenge their own perceptions to better understand people and the world around them. 

In this article, our Chief Officer for Equity & Inclusion, Dr. Steven Becton suggests 5 key practices for bringing the “Beloved Community” into the classroom.

Upstanding students at Overton High School create a memorial marker for Ell Persons to bring awareness to the history of racial violence in Memphis, Tennessee.

Here are three inspiring stories of young women who we have no doubt will be history-makers of the future. How do we know? Read about how they are already upstanders in their communities.

Consider the relevance of George Washington's letter to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport to religious inclusion in today's society.

This blog explores the connections between music, history, and social change. Within this blog, educators are provided with a lesson that can be used with students to contemplate the role of music as a social change agent.

Facing History shares a list of key components for a reflective classroom and provides educators with a number of resources to guide them in building their own.

Facing History informs readers on the history of the term "genocide."

Facing History shares educator resources that explore the impact of stereotypes in many of the histories we study.