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Mississippi students were inspired by local civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer to fight for justice in their community today.

Secular students are forming clubs for mutual support—they’ll need teacher-allies.

Critical reading allows students to navigate the “quest for mutual humanization.”

Antisemitism is alive and well in the United States, and its proponents feel emboldened. The antidote? Anti-bias education.

I asked a small group of second-graders what they would like to find inside their mailboxes. That was after we read a story about a goose who opened her mailbox and found a kite. I expected to hear answers of things: video games, toys or basketballs. But the first student who raised her hand looked at me with sincere, big brown eyes and said, "I'd like to find a letter from my dad." In my classroom, my kids say the profoundest things.

Whether close to home or far away, hands-on experience brings history to life.

How does a school community deal with the violent loss of a student? Unfortunately, this is a question my school has had to answer too often. Still, no matter how many times I’ve been through it, trying to understand my own pain while holding space for my students to feel theirs is something that pushes me beyond my capacity as a teacher.