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The start of the school year is an important time to remember that names have meaning—whether they belong to monuments, mountains or to your own students.

Teaching Tolerance has named 77 schools—25 more than last year—from across the country as Mix It Up Model Schools for their exemplary efforts to foster respect and understanding among their students and throughout their campuses during the 2011-12 school year.

As I head back to the classroom, I think about the last school year. In the second-to-last week of school, my fifth-grade classroom was 90 degrees, with no air conditioning. My students were sitting together, helping each other, laughing, struggling and having fun. At the beginning of the year, they were unsure of each other. They smiled politely but kept to themselves or the friends they knew and never asked for help. So what had changed?

Longest river The Nile River of Africa is 4,160 miles, or 6656 km, long -- the longest river in the world. Its waters drain 1/10 of the area of Africa, including parts of present day Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda and

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

A study of the Armenian Genocide raises troubling questions of remembrance and responsibility.

Whether close to home or far away, hands-on experience brings history to life.