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‘Low-income’ should not mean low expectations.

This blogger responds to the assault of a student at Spring Valley High School and reflects on the message that “kids should just listen and stay out of ‘trouble.’”

One year after Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of thousands of displaced students remain scattered in schools across the nation. In Houston, which has the largest concentration of evacuees, two schools continue helping displaced students adjust to new surroundings -- and honor what was lost or left behind.

Third grade was a bad year. Third grade was the year I learned in school that I was poor.

Educators working in locked facilities have a lot to offer—to their students and to their public-school colleagues.

Two New Mexico classrooms learn the fine art of living with Tourette Syndrome.

Language lessons create common ground in a Detroit elementary school.

Looking for straightforward information about executive orders to share with your students? Teaching Tolerance Director Maureen Costello breaks it down.

What comes to your students’ minds when they hear the word Africa? If it’s mostly civil war and famine, you’ll like the diversity of these recommended texts.

A community gets to know its own stories—past and present—through the study of slave deeds.