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What does the rise in hate groups and hate crimes say about our American history and American democracy when all lives should matter?

All over the nation people strive to answer Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous invocation: “What are you doing for others?” Many engage in projects to make their community a better place to live. My students at Life Academy in California have answered the call to service in several ways. First, they showed up on campus during a school holiday to beautify the school grounds, paint a mural, clean out an old storage room, build benches and tend to a garden. Second, they launched a 74-day fast “Season of Peace Building.” Students signed up to fast on certain days, in a kind of relay, to highlight the time from MLK day to Cesar Chavez day.

The Brown decision represents a symbol of the country we still seek to become.

Research tells us that children’s engagement with natural environments offers a host of benefits. Schools can capitalize on this knowledge.

There’s more for your students than meets the eye in Leo Lionni’s classic children’s book Frederick.

Anyone who laments that American young people are apathetic, uninvolved or not sufficiently outraged clearly isn't up on the news.

Connecting teachers and families is a high priority for Julia Zigarelli.

A trip to Haiti gives Joseph a new perspective on his identity and his adoption.

Recently I suspended a seventh-grade boy for publicly calling his former girlfriend a “slut” and a “whore.” Our rules on slurs are clear. But as I learned again, talking about something in class doesn’t always affect student behavior, especially if the unwanted behavior isn’t corrected or condemned outside of the classroom.