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Three charter schools try new approaches to integration

‘Encounter experiences’ help pre-service and practicing teachers confront their attitudes about race and privilege.

Zero tolerance policies were supposed to end school violence. Instead, they’re pushing students out of school and into the justice system — and children of color are paying the highest price.

A school for the deaf celebrates Dia de los Muertos.

Alternative certification gives educators a different route to the classroom. Does it make them fish out of water once they get there?

Religious topics have long been a touchy subject in public schools and none of them touchier than atheism. For young people though, the taboo surrounding unbelief appears to be disappearing. Recent surveys have found that younger Americans are the least likely to be religious. According to the American Religious Identification Survey, 29 percent of 18-29 year olds are religiously unaffiliated, compared with 15 percent of the population as a whole. And a 2006 Pew Research poll found that 1 in 5 young people said they have no religious affiliation, nearly double the proportion of the late 1980s.

The protests at Standing Rock offer four valuable lessons for students of all ages.