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PBS’s Chinese Exclusion Act (chapter 1)
Use this short excerpt from PBS's Chinese Exclusion as part of…





Immigrant Students Are Internalizing Stereotypes. Educators Can Help
Did you see our commentary Immigrant Students Are Internalizing…


A lesson in civility: The negativity immigrant students hear
A survey of immigrant children in the U.S. revealed just how…





Classroom Resource: Facundo the Great
Discussions about names can provide opportunities to build community,…


Educator Spotlight: Carola Suárez Orozco
Culturally Responsive Teaching with Carola Suárez Orozco
The…

Educator Spotlight: Sara Ahmed, Teaching The Arrival
Educator Spotlight: Teaching the Arrival
Welcome…

Names, Identity, and Immigration
Names play an important role in our identities. The selection…


Blog: Can You Say My Name? On Names, Culture & Identity
By Aakanksha Gupta
It was the second day of my last…

Educator Spotlight: The Role of News Literacy in Issues of Migration
News is one of the most powerful forces that informs our outlook…

Why Empathy Matters in Classroom Storytelling
by Aakanksha Gupta
In the weeks following the 2016 elections,…

What are the Predominant Stereotypes about Immigrants Today?
All of us of carry biases with us. We learn them as part of our socialization into our communities. Biases influence what we see, what we believe, and how we understand the world.


With uncertainty surrounding DACA, and anti-immigrant rhetoric on the rise, what should educators do?
By Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, Carola Suarez-Orozco, and Adam Strom
The…

Why Teach about Migration?
The story of migration is the story of humankind. The genetic and paleontological record of human migration is at least 70,000 years old. Researchers know that all of us can trace our ancestry to Southern Africa, while some homo sapiens migrated across Africa and stayed, others ventured out to the Asia, Australia, Europe, and eventually to the Americas. This is our shared experience.

Re-imagining Approaches to Immigration in Schools
In the United States, immigrants and their children…

A Global Perspective on Immigration
By Marcelo Suárez-Orozco & Carola Suárez-Orozco
Sometimes…