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An important step in gauging attitudes toward race in your school is assessing school climate. School climate questionnaires can be used to: uncover differences in teacher and student perceptions; open professional

Schools across the country can reduce the number of suspensions and learn from a recent legal settlement in Mobile, Ala.

Advice for first-year teachers from the Teaching Tolerance community.

When schools implement anti-bullying programs, the focus is usually centered on student-to-student bullying. However, students aren’t the only bullies in school. Teachers sometimes earn the label when they employ

When a student directed an LGBT slur at a classmate, this teacher missed the teachable moment. He won’t let that happen again.

Like the more than 22,000 students who visit the Civil Rights Memorial Center each year, Brittney Johnson loved the fountain. The 10-year-old Montgomery, Ala., native had never been to the memorial center, even though it’s just a few miles from her house. And like most visitors she was instantly drawn to the circular black granite fountain out in front. This unique piece of architecture, designed by Maya Lin, is engraved with the names of 40 civil rights martyrs. Next to it stands a wall of water that cascades transparently over Martin Luther King Jr.’s well-known paraphrase of Amos 5:24 -- We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

The First Amendment defines the parameters of including religious content in U.S. public school classrooms, but teachers still wonder: What does religion as content look like?