Jeff Sapp, a Teaching Tolerance curriculum specialist and writer, presented the Center's award-winning education kit,聽One Survivor Remembers, to an education conference March 9 in Las Vegas. The kit tells the story of Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein.
Facing the effects of decades of intolerance in their country, a group of Irish educators is turning to the Southern Poverty Law Center for tips on promoting tolerance in their own classrooms.
Gerda Weissmann Klein has found herself behind some high-profile lecterns, including the night she accepted the 1995 Academy Award for the film of her life,聽One Survivor Remembers.
A high school senior who has been instrumental in her school's Mix It Up Day is being recognized today with an "I Have A Dream" award as part of her community's Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration.
Gerda Weissmann Klein has been haunted by a question ever since she survived the Nazi Holocaust as a young woman.
With school budgets tightening across the country, Southern Poverty Law Center staff are racing to meet an extraordinary demand for the free resources Teaching Tolerance offers educators. And thanks to generous donations from Southern Poverty Law Center supporters, every request is fulfilled.
Through a special letter-writing campaign, Teaching Tolerance's supporters thank educators for their anti-bias efforts in schools.
Center co-founder Morris Dees tells thousands of educators that they had a pivotal role in teaching children about tolerance.
The fall issue of the Center鈥檚 Teaching Tolerance magazine features 鈥淏ully on the Bus,鈥� an article that explores the problems students experience on their way to and from school and provides suggestions for addressing them.
