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A civil rights lawyer contemplates hate in schools.

"I just don’t know what to do about Jordan," confessed Mary, whom I’d just met. I don’t know if she was confiding in me because I teach English or because that’s just what one does at a nail salon. “Last year, he spent hours filling his journals and talking about being a writer when he grew up. Now he hardly writes at all. He says he’s not any good at it.”

This educator reflects on the scariest student conversation she has overheard in her teaching career.

After witnessing the rise of the “alt-right,” this social studies teacher doubled down on debunking Confederacy myths.

Mendez v. Westminster has gone largely unrecognized in history instruction. If it is mentioned at all, the case is often tagged as a precursor to the civil rights movement or as the Mexican-American version of Brown v

The cost of bullying isn’t just psychological and physical; it’s also fiscal.

I literally don’t know how I would handle the 2016 election if I were teaching today.