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Teaching Tolerance director Lecia J. Brooks reflects on the still segregated nature of our public schools.

New curriculum offers step-by-step lessons for engaging in effective argument on divisive issues.

When you’re the only person of color in your class, school can become a struggle between two worlds.

Gender-segregated classrooms are on the rise in the U.S. — especially the Southeast — but research regarding their effectiveness remains inconclusive.

Some people argue “gay-friendly” schools offer needless segregation. Others say they’re the only chance some kids have to make it.

Charter schools tailored to the needs of newly arrived immigrants are getting a lot of attention. But are they working? And will they lead to a new kind of segregation?

‘Encounter experiences’ help pre-service and practicing teachers confront their attitudes about race and privilege.

Part of the Why I Teach essay series.

In third grade, Julia Horsman’s entire science project consisted of being herded outside with the other kids with disabilities and rolling soda cans down a ramp.

America’s schools are more segregated now than they were in the late 1960s.