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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.

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.

The application window for the 2016 Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Teaching is open! Read how this award has impacted Barrie Moorman, a 2014 awardee.

Game time is being cut in exchange for increased direct instruction time in reading and mathematics. But research shows that games actually nourish the brain—and one teacher uses them daily in her classroom.

This Latina civic empowerment program seeks to “take stories of adversity and flip them into stories of glory.”

More public schools are discovering yoga for kids can benefit classroom management—and learning.