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Denver students confront racial tracking at their high school.

My students are too young to remember the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Just four years before their birth, they refer to them as something from “back in the day.”But the themes of police brutality, poverty and racism are all too familiar. And most drew an immediate connection between the Rodney King verdict that sparked those riots and the 2009 fatal shooting of Oscar Grant. Grant was shot in the back by Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer Johannes Mehserle less than one mile from our school in Oakland.

Three things every teacher should know about implicit bias and the brain.

Use first-graders’ commitment to fairness to help them connect with the modern civil rights movement.

Our online Teaching Hard History Text Library includes a wealth of primary and secondary source documents about slavery to share with students of all ages.

Want to do your part to make schools safer? Use National Youth Violence Prevention Week as a starting point for year-round planning.

When teachers have mentors and teachers of their very own, the results can make a meaningful impact.

Two drastically different images of the American flag have appeared in popular culture. What might they reveal about the state of race relations in the United States?