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A small town sees itself as larger than life.

A child's ADHD diagnosis raises one parent's concerns about the stereotypes that too often surround the disorder.

Teaching Tolerance asks educators about the social climate of their classrooms

Several stacks of fake dollar bills enclosed in a Plexiglas case sit at the center of an exhibit entitled “RACE: Are We So Different?” at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. One stack towers over the others. This teetering pile of bills represents the average net worth of “white” people’s assets in relation to those of other racialized groups based upon data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau from 1997 to 2000. While the “Asian” stack is almost as high, the “black” stack can hardly be called a stack at all; the “Latino” stack is almost as low.

Extra attention and mentoring before first-generation students attend college can give them the tools to feel comfortable, confident and welcome when they start their higher education journey.

In the wake of more shootings, this white educator and father contemplates how he can undermine a system that makes his sons and him safer than their African-American counterparts.

Just because a bookshelf is full of "classics" doesn't mean it holds universal life lessons.

How to teach students to respectfully engage with peers of differing religious belief systems.

When two American Studies teachers combined their classes to discuss school integration, they fostered a depth of learning they never anticipated.