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Facilities and resources matter. How can educators bridge divides amongst schools?

Teaching Tolerance interim director Jennifer Holladay reflects on the birth of her daughter and the community she will grow up in.

Spanish teacher Tricia Kelly reflects on one of her favorite teaching days.

Mexican and U.S. students look both ways and cross the border.

A New Jersey elementary school learns to cope with loss.

Two scholars make the case for teaching religious literacy.

Grow food justice in the garden or the classroom.

Texas is in the throes of rewriting the curriculum standards for its K-12 textbooks. And that is something to be very, very worried about.

Kudos to the U.S. Department of Education for making such a strong case in this week's Dear Colleague Letter that bullying is a matter of civil rights. The DOE rightly reframed the issue of bullying in schools as one of institutional responsibility—one that can get schools into serious legal trouble if ignored. Among other things, the letter says “some student misconduct that falls under a school’s anti-bullying policy also may trigger responsibilities under one or more of the federal antidiscrimination laws.”

Last month, 12-year-old Alexa Gonzalez used an erasable marker to scribble on her desk. “I love my friends Abby and Faith,” she wrote, along with, “Lex was here. 2/1/10,” punctuated with a happy face. But neither her Spanish teacher nor the principal at Alexa’s Queens, New York, middle school were amused. They called school security—New York City police officers—who arrested and handcuffed Alexa, and walked her across the street to their precinct, according to the New York Daily News.