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Trace school integration from 1849 to 2007.

Bilingual storytellers blend history, tradition and culture to teach the power of language and story.

Language lessons create common ground in a Detroit elementary school.

Telling only one story of civil rights marginalizes the voices we ignore. It also prevent us from doing exactly what the story of civil rights is supposed to teach us to do―fight for justice in our own communities as those before us did.

Knowing the difference can make all the difference to students who do not conform to binary norms.

American Indian scholar Karen Gayton Swisher envisions effective education for all Indian children.

Young people need stories of persistent women who have fought for gender equality. Women's History Month is a good time for us to recommit to teaching those stories.

The first day of my second year of teaching, a third-grader walked into class, saw another student and punched him in the nose. He didn’t say anything or give any indication that he was going to do this. It just happened. After cleaning up the blood and redirecting the class, I asked the attacker why he wanted to punch someone else. “He’s Mexican,” he said. “He don’t belong in my class.”