Curated OER
Words Really Matter: Examining Language at School
Help your young scholars gain sensitivity and become aware of the implications of the words they see, hear, and use about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. After making lists of words or phrases they hear or use in school...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: What Administration Is Saying About Trans Students
Information about the Obama administration's directive to public schools on how to be inclusive and non-discrimitative to transgender students.
BBC
Bbc News: Week of 12 23 13: Ugandan M Ps Pass Life in Jail Anti Homosexual Law
In Uganda, a bill has recently been passed that will allow gay people to be sentenced to life in jail because of their sexual orientation. Learn why bill has been condemned by President Obama, and is causing many to flee for out of fear...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: The American Civil Rights Movement: An Overview
Given primary and secondary resources, students will be able to trace the historical development of the civil rights movement in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, and describe the roles of political organizations that promoted civil...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: Billie Jean King Travels With a Message About History
Tennis player and LGBT rights activist Billie Jean King has been selected by President Obama to represent the United States as a part of the American delegation at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Learn why her selection is so...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Hope and Change
In 2008, American voters, tired of war and dispirited by the economic downturn, elected a relative newcomer to the political scene who inspired them and made them believe that the United States could rise above political partisanship....
CNN
Cnn: Week of 12 16 13: German President Will Not Attend Olympics in Russia
The leader of Germany, Joachim Gauck, has decided to boycott the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia due to human rights violations. Learn what this boycott means and why many others are joining him.