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Young people who are overweight can face a lifetime of discrimination.

Explore Maya Angelou’s life and legacy by creating a customized Learning Plan that gives your students the opportunity to closely read her work and engage with her words through a social justice lens.

This TT staffer, not long out of the classroom herself, shares some encouraging words for fellow educators who are grappling with the news and their own emotions today.

Paul Gorski calls on fellow educators examine the classist assumptions infiltrating classrooms and schools.

Animal care helps Los Angeles middle schoolers practice patience and cooperation.

“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” These few words, spoken casually by Sonia Sotomayor at the annual Mario G. Olmos Law and Cultural Diversity Lecture at UC-Berkeley in 2001, came back to haunt President Barack Obama’s nominee for the United States Supreme Court during the spring and summer of 2009. Hard to believe that this brief statement could cause such anguish, particularly among the conservative white senators who form part of the Senate Judiciary Committee, yet they led to days of arrogant grilling by the Senators and weeks of newspaper articles and commentary by television pundits speculating on what Sotomayor meant, whether it would hurt her confirmation, and what it would signal for the new court.

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