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What 'Brown v. Board' meant to the United States.

Language lessons create common ground in a Detroit elementary school.

For the last few days, an “educational analyst” for Focus on the Family has been getting a lot of press. She’s been suggesting that anti-bullying efforts that draw attention to the harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students are part of a “gay agenda” to “sneak homosexuality lessons into classrooms.”

When many students think of buses and desegregation, their minds instantly go to Rosa Parks and the 1954 Montgomery Bus Boycott. But the larger civil rights fight over transportation took place seven years later with the Freedom Rides.

Scholars are divided on the role of the U.S. Supreme Court in the civil rights movement. This blogger, a history teacher, explains why this debate is a valuable lesson.

Bringing diverse political viewpoints into the classroom is vital in the polarized, echo-chambered world our students inhabit.

Looking for straightforward information about executive orders to share with your students? Teaching Tolerance Director Maureen Costello breaks it down.

How do your students learn how to know? And what does your teaching look like in the face of a devaluing of shared truth, deepening political polarization and the mainstreaming of intolerance?

Encouraging students to think through problems in the contemporary media landscape can help them become more active, open-minded knowledge-seekers.