Highlighting a hero is a common response to including the history of marginalized people in the curriculum. Harvey Milk is becoming that hero as social studies curriculum responds to calls for including LGBTQ people. By studying Milk, what might young people learn about LGBTQ people, issues, and movements? What opportunities and limitations exist…

In order to accommodate the education needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students, American schools need to do more than add LGBT information to the curriculum in sex education class. If we believe, as Erikson (1968) suggested--that adolescence is the time when young people try to make sense of who they are--and if we believe that…

Lesson plans and bibliographies compiled in this booklet were created by participants in a series of in-service workshops conducted to heighten awareness of sex-role stereotyping and its relationship to career education. The curriculum guide presents 15 high school lesson plans (units). Each unit includes, in outline form, the headings of Cluster,…