Teach Children about Slavery?

Teaching for Change on
NPR's All Things Considered

NPR interviewed Allyson Criner Brown.

Did you hear? Teaching for Change was featured on NPR's All Things Considered last Friday along with scholar Ebony Elizabeth Thomas and children's book author Matt de la Peña in a four minute segment on the recall of A Birthday Cake for George Washington. Listen or read the transcript here.

Help us challenge two major misrepresentations of the book recall:

1) Scholastic denies that the grassroots protest led to the book recall.

2) The recall is being falsely decried as censorship.

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Considerations for Educators on
Slavery and Resistance

To support and deepen the important conversation about how and when to teach children about the history of enslavement of Africans in the United States, we share key articles for reflection followed by suggested books for children and adults. Read more .

Books on Slavery and Resistance

Here is a list of more than 60 books we recommend for the classroom and as background reading for parents and teachers on the history of slavery and resistance in the United States. Before sharing these books with children, we recommend reading Considerations for Early Childhood and Early Elementary Educators on Slavery and Resistance.

Guide for Selecting Anti-Bias Books

We invite you to read these guidlines on how to select books for young children that support the development of a healthy self-image and positive attitudes about people different from themselves. Also, browse our recommended booklists for early childhood.

Where is the Diversity in Publishing?

Lee & Low Books has just released the results of their 2015 survey of the publishing industry on the diversity of staff and reviewers. See the results of the baseline survey on diversity in publishing .

The lack of diversity in children's books is well documented by the Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC).

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