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Articles

New York Times
At Last, Facing Down Bullies (and Their Enablers)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/health/09klas.html
Kids Health
Teaching Your Child Tolerance
http://kidshealth.org/parent/positive/talk/tolerance.html
Academic Exchange Quarterly
Using Literature to Model Tolerance

Books

The Nature of Prejudice
Allport, W. Gordon | Boston: Addison-Wesley, 1954
Introduction to Multicultural Education. 2d ed.
Banks, J. A. | Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1999
Shades of Black: Diversity in African-American Identity
Cross, W.E. | Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991
Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves
Derman-Sparks, L. and J.O. Edwards | Washington D.C.: NAEYC, 2010
Teaching and Learning in a Diverse World: Multicultural Education for Young Children. 3d ed.
Ramsey, P. | New York: Teachers College Press, 2004
Hate Hurts: How Children Learn and Unlearn Prejudice
Stern-LaRosa, Caryl and Ellen Hofheimer Bettman | New York: Scholastic Paperbacks, 2000
“Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?” and other conversations about race
Tatum, B.D. | New York: Basic Books, 2003

Websites

ALA Notable Books for Children
http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/notalists
Education World
http://www.educationworld.com/
National Association of School Psychologists
http://www.nasponline.org/
National Crime Prevention Council
http://www.ncpc.org/
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
http://nichcy.org/
National Parent Teacher Association
http://pta.org/topic_child_safety.asp
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance Project
http://www.splcenter.org/what-we-do/teaching-tolerance
Special Olympics
http://www.specialolympics.org/