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Schools have a responsibility to maintain a safe learning environment for all students—this seems on first examination a simple enough statement. It isn’t. Two words are key—“learning” and “all.” A school that is inclusive of all its students but unable to nurture learning has failed in its responsibility. An academically successful school that only supports its majority students has equally neglected its obligation.

To close an English unit on social activism, this teacher had her students reflect by recognizing and writing about the activist potential in their classmates.

Three recipients of the 2016 Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Teaching have an urgent message for President-elect Trump.

How do you respond to co-workers who do not recognize their own privileges? An after-school program staff member shares her experience.

During a day of lessons about Asian-American culture and history, students in this Philadelphia school experienced deep learning and reflection.

Fifty years after the historic ruling, American schools are resegregating.

A pair of news stories this week reported that students were being silenced and punished when they attempted to speak up for others. This is disappointing.