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Fall 2024
Simulating Redlining: When “Race Was the Real Currency”
By Adam Sanchez
A high school social studies teacher describes a classroom simulation where students experience the effects of decades of racist federal housing policies.
Why Do You Live Where You Live?: Using Interactive Maps to Connect Past Racist Housing Policy to the Present
By Carl Faucher
A middle school English teacher uses online mapping tools to connect past racist housing policy to the present.
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