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Third grade was a bad year. Third grade was the year I learned in school that I was poor.

Using Barack Obama's historic speech on race in the classroom.

Two experts offer opinions on what to expect from the economic crisis - and how to help your students cope.

A former teacher from Crystal City, Texas, remembers the student walkout that helped launch the Latino civil rights movement 40 years ago.

Students from both sides of Chicago's school-funding divide are coming together to demand equality. In the process, they're crossing barriers of race and social class.

Part of the 'Why I Teach' series

Students learn to spot bias in their culture —and confront their own homophobia in the process.

Her lessons met the standards, but her students were pummeling each other in the restroom between classes. How one teacher found a way to reach the benchmarks that really matter.

Why is that English language learner sitting in the back of the classroom and not speaking up? Maybe she just needs a friend.

Social justice theater can teach your students to take the story into their own hands.