Learning for Justice!

Teaching Tolerance has a new name: Learning for Justice. Here is an excerpt from their announcement that so clearly states the importance of education for social justice work: Together, we’re teaching the hard history of American slavery. We’re promoting policies that ensure queer students are safe on campus. We’re navigating critical conversations with young people about race, gender, class and more. We’re advocating for sanctuary schools where students and their families won’t be afraid of deportation. We’re offering guidance on procedures and policies to interrupt a school-to-prison pipeline that disproportionately removes Black, Latinx and Indigenous students from their classrooms, their families and their communities.

The fact is, tolerance is not justice. It isn’t a sufficient description of the work we do or of the world we want.