WELCOME TO FAIR in EDUCATION

Fairness, Understanding & Humanity
in the field of K-12 and higher education

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Supporting education that advances fairness, understanding, and humanity

FAIR’s educational services and resources help schools create positive learning communities and encourage a sense of belonging by emphasizing the values of fairness, understanding, and humanity.

We inspire and empower students, teachers, administrators, board members, and families to work together toward a more optimistic future.

Donate to FAIR's Library Neutrality Fund

Libraries throughout the US and Canada have been abdicating their responsibilities to uphold viewpoint neutrality and curate collections that reflect diversity of thought. Sometimes libraries have even terminated staff members and leaders simply for advocating for viewpoint diversity.

Help FAIR stand for library neutrality by donating to our Library Neutrality Fund.

Join the Educators Alliance

American education stands at a crossroads. Test scores have plummeted to historic lows, and public school enrollment continues declining while educators face unprecedented challenges in fostering learning environments that unite rather than divide students.

Research from George Mason University reveals that intolerance is becoming more prevalent in schools, while a 2022 RAND Corporation study found district leaders deeply concerned that educational polarization interferes with learning itself. Students deserve better than classrooms where academic achievement suffers amid cultural division.

At this critical moment, FAIR is proud to relaunch our Educators Alliance for the 2025-2026 school year, centered around our groundbreaking American Experience Curriculum—a comprehensive social studies course that explores America’s diverse story while emphasizing the foundational principles and shared values that unite us all.

If you’re an educator, join us the first Thursday of each month to learn about and discuss the issues that you face in your position as an educator.

Curricular Resources

American Experience Curriculum

FAIR is finalizing its “answer” to Ethnic Studies: an American Experience and Civics curriculum. Our goal is to provide students with a comprehensive perspective of the role all Americans have played in U.S. history; instill a fundamental understanding of our founding principles; and address ethnicity organically in the context of our shared American experience, culture, and values.

Ethnic Studies Analysis Guide

Many schools in many states are implementing Ethnic Studies requirements for graduation. This guide provides an analysis of what ethnic studies is, whether it achieves its purported goals, and what current research says about it.

View The Guide

Teaching About Identity Series

FAIR’s Teaching About Identity: Lessons From Around the World series is an exploration of the question: What can we learn from history about how school environments have impacted racially, ethnically, or politically divided societies? Using as case studies 1930s Germany, 1960s China, and 1980s-90s Rwanda, the series does a deep dive into education in times and places where identity has been a divisive factor, and provides information to help the reader draw insights for building unity in classrooms today.

Literature Guides

FAIR Literature Guides emphasize pro-human values and support literacy development. Designed for use with elementary-age students, each guide stars a high-quality picture book with discussion questions and activities aligned with FAIR Learning Standards. Students will engage with rich texts and illustrations to explore values of fairness, understanding, and humanity.

Literature Guides

K-12 Pro-Human Learning Standards

The FAIR Learning Standards provide essential guidance for teaching and learning about the histories, experiences, and contributions of people of different cultural and ancestral backgrounds in the U.S.

Learning Standards

Lessons, Videos, and Content

For middle and high school students, FAIR’s lessons, units, and videos can stand alone or align with pre-existing units in civics, social studies, and history.

FAIRStory.org

Faces of X Series

Faces of X is a series of short videos that integrate different perspectives on divisive social issues — like capitalism, gender, and race. It steel-mans different perspectives on an issue, and then synthesizes the best parts of each perspective into a synthesized view, promoting understanding and viewpoint diversity.

Banned Books Week Resources

Banned Books Week is an event highlighting the value of free and open access to information and is supported by a coalition of organizations dedicated to free expression. Since 1982, this annual event has focused on efforts across the United States to remove or restrict access to books and has also drawn national attention to the harms of censorship. To mark Banned Books week and better understand the types of censorship we face today, FAIR in Libraries offers resources that examine the issue from multiple perspectives.

Education Networks

FAIR in Libraries

FAIR in Libraries is a nonpartisan professional network dedicated to advancing a culture of fairness, understanding, and humanity in libraries. We believe libraries have a unique mandate to represent a diversity of perspectives in their collections, programs, and daily operations.

FAIR in Libraries’ mission is to influence library workers, associations, boards of directors and funders to prioritize institutional and professional neutrality, viewpoint diversity, intellectual freedom and free speech. To achieve this, FAIR in Libraries will empower citizens with the tools and support needed to ensure their libraries remain neutral and offer multiple viewpoints. If you'd like to sign up or if you have questions, please reach out to us at [email protected].

Educators Alliance

We bring together educators from K-12 to share experiences and concerns and to develop strategies for supporting teachers, community members, and chapters. We welcome educators and staff from all levels for informal discussions with periodic presentations and workshops.

Higher Education Working Group

We bring together higher education faculty to work on developing resources and projects to advance FAIR’s mission and support students and faculty in colleges and universities. We welcome part-time and full-time faculty from all disciplines.

FAIR in Education Fellowship

The Educational Fellowship consists of a cohort of educators who serve in a volunteer capacity for a two-year period to help shape, promote, and lead our programs and networks. Currently, our fellows are leading a national book club that meets monthly to discuss books that challenge and deepen our sense of fairness, understanding and humanity, while enriching our sense of what it means to be pro-human.

Summer Internship

We host a full-time summer internship program for undergraduate students and recent graduates who show a passion for promoting FAIR’s pro-human values, including curiosity, compassion, and courage, and have excellent communication and leadership skills.

Intern at FAIR

FAIR on Campus

FAIR on Campus gives students an opportunity to bring pro-human values to their college and university settings. Students can make a positive impact on their communities through clubs, speaker series, and other initiatives that promote open-mindedness, inclusive dialogue, and building bridges across differences.

FAIR in Education Fellows

Dave Ferrero

FAIR in Education Fellow

Kobi Nelson

FAIR in Education Fellow

Ian Rowe

FAIR in Education Fellow

Tanya Prince

FAIR in Education Fellow

Advocacy

Education Toolkit

Our educational resources, including model letters and policy statements, can help parents introduce and advocate for FAIR’s pro-human approach in their local schools.

Parents are also encouraged to join their local chapter networks as they work toward positive change in schools.

Advocacy Toolkit

Parent Education Workshops

Our parent education workshops provide an overview of the current K-12 educational landscape, summarize key issues interfering with students’ civil rights, and train parents and guardians in effective, pro-human advocacy.

Legal Letters and Comments

Letters and comments made by FAIR advance civil rights and liberties, and promote a common culture based on fairness, understanding and humanity.

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Publications and Media

Our selected publications and media will give you an overview and the latest news for developments in schools.

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WELCOME TO FAIR in EDUCATION

Fairness, Understanding & Humanity in the field of K-12 and higher education

Supporting education that advances fairness, understanding, and humanity

Donate to FAIR's Library Neutrality Fund

Join the Educators Alliance

Curricular Resources

Education Networks

FAIR in Education Fellows

Dave Ferrero

FAIR in Education Fellow

Kobi Nelson

FAIR in Education Fellow

Ian Rowe

FAIR in Education Fellow

Tanya Prince

FAIR in Education Fellow

Advocacy

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Fairness, Understanding & Humanity
in the field of K-12 and higher education