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As a young newspaper reporter in Texas, I covered my fair share of speeches. The thrill of hearing an important person give carefully prepared remarks wore off quickly. So I got in the habit of turning away from the speaker and watching the crowd.

On January 22, a senate panel in Florida approved a bill that would offer vouchers to targets of bullying so they can transfer to a private school. No matter the bill’s intentions, it harms rather than helps children.

This activity is to accompany the Teaching Tolerance article “Story Corner: An Unlikely Friendship.”

American schools are resegregating. What's happening in your community?

A Cincinnati school serves Mix It Up as part of academic life.

Gloria and Rosa use their love of music to make a change in their school district—together.

Jim Bolone’s favorite childhood memory keeps his love of teaching alive, even when bureaucracy gets him down.

Every marking period I contact the parents of my most remarkable students to tell them how great their kids are. I do this for a few reasons. Too often, my attention is consumed with kids who need refocusing, redirecting and all the other IEP-mandated practices teachers do anyway. But mostly I contact the remarkable students because I’ve noticed that the kids who do good work often go unacknowledged.