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What can we say to our kids after a week like this one?

This TT staffer reflects on the incessant violence in our country as an educator and a mother.

Using Barack Obama's historic speech on race in the classroom.

Teaching Tolerance director Kelvin Datcher ponders the legacy of Brown v. Board.

I am a good driver. You’d never know it, given the theatrics of the backseat drivers in my vehicle, whose sudden gasps and quick grasps for the dashboard denote a lack of confidence in my skills. This drama is alternately amusing, annoying and unnecessary. I'm proud to say that, for the most part, my instinctive go-to practice of "when in doubt, step on the gas" has never let me down.

Institutional racism can be hard to spot. Try our strategies for sniffing it out.

A recent Cheerios commercial reminds us of the historical roots of race in the United States. Those roots still cause social and political upset.

Kids disappear from schools and communities every day. This teacher does all she can to keep them where she can see them.

When a student’s frustration escalates, this teacher suggests several ways to address it that does not include punishment.