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For the last few days, an “educational analyst” for Focus on the Family has been getting a lot of press. She’s been suggesting that anti-bullying efforts that draw attention to the harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students are part of a “gay agenda” to “sneak homosexuality lessons into classrooms.”

Bringing diverse political viewpoints into the classroom is vital in the polarized, echo-chambered world our students inhabit.

How do your students learn how to know? And what does your teaching look like in the face of a devaluing of shared truth, deepening political polarization and the mainstreaming of intolerance?

Concerns about the impact of fake news are actually concerns about learning to know. That’s why teaching about confirmation bias is imperative.

Encouraging students to think through problems in the contemporary media landscape can help them become more active, open-minded knowledge-seekers.

Four ways to include religiously unaffiliated students in classroom content about religion.

A teacher book group dedicated to reading diverse literature for young people and adults can foster cultural competence and support anti-bias teaching.

Teacher-librarian Amy Hamrick found out the hard way why it’s important to learn about students’ many cultures.

Follow student activists as they Mix It Up at their schools.