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Asian-American students give voice to the challenges of living in two cultures.

When we encourage our students to consider how power and privilege affect them, we must also anticipate that they’re going to want to do something about injustices they see.

This toolkit for “Expelling Islamophobia” outlines a six-step lesson plan using the short film American Muslims: Facts vs. Fiction. The purpose is to foster all students’ religious literacy and improve school climate for Muslim students and other vulnerable student groups.

Teaching Tolerance director Maureen Costello discusses the difficulty of teaching the 2016 election.

The free college tuition movement is gaining some traction.

Educators have always had the responsibility to stand up to hate and bias—but it's more necessary now than ever.

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.

A Florida suicide raises sobering questions about how to stop bullying.

Move beyond the pink/blue binary to support students who don’t conform to narrow gender norms.