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It’s time to revisit students’ rights and what freedom really looks like.

Local PBS networks’ refusal to air an episode of a children’s show featuring the marriage of two men speaks to a larger problem in our society—and our schools.

In this elementary, classroom-level project, students research the policy positions of elected officials at all levels to create a PSA encouraging voter participation.

Teaching Tolerance and the SPLC have released a new report on hate and bias in U.S. schools. The findings are grim, but schools, communities and elected officials can work together to change that.

In science classes, we teach students to think carefully about the relationship between observation and hypothesis. Let’s encourage them to use that thinking to create a more just world.

As we mourn yet another antisemitic attack, we’re reminded of the important role educators play in pushing back against hate and violence.

The idea of a dress code for parents—like the one at Houston's James Madison High School—should bother us all. Schools need to engage with families as partners in students’ education, not troublemakers to control.

Hate incidents last month included threats and even violence. We’ve got to do better.

The lessons of Reconstruction extend beyond the history classroom.