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When school starts, highlight student excitement, not poverty.

This teacher looks forward to a time when teachers have the freedom to be role models for their students.

An eventful taxi ride home after a challenging day gave this teacher perspective on her life’s work.

Encouraging students to take an interest in the well-being of others is not indoctrination: It’s the right thing to do.

Racial stress can silence children. Storytelling can awaken their voices.

On Feb. 12, 2008, 15-year-old Lawrence King was shot twice in the head in front of other students, in Oxnard, Calif. What this anti-gay hate crime teaches us.

As the number of obese and overweight children grows, so does size bias.

A Connecticut teacher helps teens navigate the landscape of feelings

No Child Left Behind is plunging many English language learners into the educational mainstream — and sometimes getting them in over their heads.

Last week, Teaching Tolerance ran a post from an assistant principal in Illinois. Lamenting the recent spate of anti-Islamic incidents and the rising anti-Muslim rhetoric, she wrote:I immediately wondered how to tackle this head-on as an educator. What would I say to my teachers about how to approach the subject in our history classes? How could I be a participant in a difficult conversation in which some of our Muslim students are directly affected?