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The confluence of President Obama’s second inauguration and MLK Day is a fitting legacy and inspiration to continue making changes.

Stories from the past, like those of Freedom Summer, serve to remind us that change happens when everyday people create it.

Help kids navigate our sometimes-violent world.

General Mills recently ran an ad for Cheerios cereal featuring an interracial couple and their child. This is cause for celebration and an opportunity to help students explore race and expand media literacy. Unfortunately, not all viewers saw it that way.

Introverts are often pushed to be talkative and outgoing. Doing so devalues their identities.

Meet the people behind YCteen, a youth-written magazine inspiring educators throughout New York City.

For rural schools, the growing use of technology can create new problems as it solves old ones.

I was excited by my lesson plan about the presidential elections. I planned to help students research issues and form opinions by guiding them through a variety of perspectives. Then my student teacher asked a question that surprised me. “Do you ever have parents complain about elections being discussed in school?” he wanted to know. “Why would they?” I asked.

How do monuments that venerate individuals who promoted hate and bigotry affect our efforts to create a more tolerant society?