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TT answers your toughest questions. This time, we discuss teaching controversial topics and having courageous conversations.

Practices that honor student identities, build intergroup awareness and support diverse learning styles.

Teaching Tolerance managing editor Brian Willoughby remembers Rosa Parks and her radical legacy.

The editor of Teaching Tolerance reflects on the need to commemorate the toll of slavery.

“But nobody here listens to me,” Saul lamented as he tried to explain why he was in my office yet again this week. “I don’t know why I even bother to come here.” His refrain is a familiar one in my large, suburban high school. I have a feeling it’s a familiar one in high schools across the country. Our kids are crying out to be heard, and unfortunately, those cries often result in disciplinary referrals.

At the start of my career as an eighth-grade language arts teacher, it never bothered me when students were described by teachers as “low,” “middle,” or “high” as a way to label their abilities. No disrespect was meant toward our learners; it was just a fast and easy way to describe our kids and get to know them when we had so little time with them.

Evidence from the Human Genome Project.

An educator reflects on her commitment to building a just and equitable society.

Answers to your toughest social justice questions.