Bringing human rights education to US classrooms

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"Bringing Human Rights Education to US Classrooms presents ten research-based human rights projects powerfully implemented in a range of U.S. classrooms, from elementary school through community college and university. In these classrooms, the students--primarily young people of color who have experienced or witnessed human rights abuses such as discrimination and poverty--are exposed for the first time to thinking about their own lives and the world through an empowering human rights lens. Unique in integrating theory and classroom practice, and in addressing human rights issues with special relevance for communities of color in the US, Katz and Spero provide indispensable guidance for those studying and teaching human rights"-- "Bringing Human Rights Education to US Classrooms presents twelve research-based human rights projects powerfully implemented in a range of U.S. classrooms, from elementary school through community college and university. The students, composed are primarily of young people of color, who have experienced or witnessed human rights abuses, such as discrimination and poverty, are exposed for the first time to thinking about their own lives and the world through an empowering human rights lens"--