Articles

Teacher Lisa Weinbaum honors students who break stereotypes, defy odds and make the world a better place.

In 1957, nine black schoolchildren enrolled at Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., and compelled the nation to live up to its promise of equality. Fifty years later, Central High's teachers and students revisit the past to help shape the future.

How to help your students talk about race.

Across the nation, schools struggle to celebrate athletic spirit without sinking to cheers and chants steeped in intolerance.

A message from Teaching Tolerance director Brian Willoughby.

The day finally arrived when the Great North built a Great Wall to separate itself from the Great South. But would they live to regret it?

One year after Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of thousands of displaced students remain scattered in schools across the nation. In Houston, which has the largest concentration of evacuees, two schools continue helping displaced students adjust to new surroundings -- and honor what was lost or left behind.

Kenji Ima recalls life in America's World War II prison camps. His daughter works with a Seattle-based educational theater company to share his story.

For a high school on South Dakota's Rosebud Reservation, culturally responsive curriculum may be the best antidote to the violence, poverty and growing cultural disconnect hindering student success.

Veteran teacher Dottie Blais writes openly about a question that too often is left unspoken and unanswered: How does a teacher's whiteness get in the way of successful multicultural education?