Resources on the Current Hate Spike
These resources on the current hate spike can help you make the case for why #USvsHate is so necessary. (The hate spike has exposed a deeper, older problem in U.S. life: we don’t treat all people as equally valuable.)
Hate at School Report 2018 (Teaching Tolerance)
- Educator professional development
- Highlight: “Hate at School 2018 supplements news reports from 2018 with a survey conducted by Teaching Tolerance in December that asked educators to describe incidents involving hate symbols or the targeting of others on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, immigration status, gender or sexual identity.” “The K-12 educators who responded . . . reported 3,265 such incidents in the fall of 2018 alone.”
Hate at School reports (Teaching Tolerance)
- Educator professional development
- Highlight: ongoing Teaching Tolerance series of monthly reports on hate incidents in U.S. schools.
Increased Stress and Hostility in America’s High Schools (UCLA Institute for Democracy, Education and Access)
- Educator professional development
- Highlight: A study of recent educator experiences with hate across the country. Provides evidence that examples of hate, harassment, and campus incivility have spiked in many schools nationwide. Additionally, 91.6% of teachers recently surveyed nationally agreed that “leaders should encourage and model civil exchange and greater understanding across lines of difference.”
March 2019 School and Society report (UCLA Institute for Democracy, Education and Access)
- Educator professional development
- Highlight: Study explores how America’s high schools are experiencing rising incivility and division, in addition to other challenges to student well-bring. Calls for educators to “establish and communicate school climate standards emphasizing care, connectedness, and civility.”
Overcoming Hate in Our Backyards. (Rethinking Schools/#Schooltalking).
- Educator professional development
- Highlight: A localized example in San Diego, making the case that every community needs to unite locally against hate. Teachers have also used this article with students as a useful conversation starter to launch #USvsHate activities.
Standing Up Against Hate. (Teaching Tolerance/#Schooltalking)
- Educator professional development
- Highlight: This short piece makes the case that educators have always had the responsibility to stand up to hate and bias; it’s just more necessary now than ever. A useful conversation starter for #USvsHate educators and students.
