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Lolita Bolden reflects on history and the love of community while sharing a poem.

Reader reactions: your responses to Islamophobia, native voices and Kid President.

Stories teach—sometimes better than textbooks.

To truly teach tolerance to children, parents must promote more than the Golden Rule.

Young philosophers in San Francisco ponder age-old questions

Part of the Why I Teach essay series.

The suicides of boys tormented by anti-gay harassment grabbed the public’s attention this fall. Those suicides are the tip of the iceberg. For every tragic and unnecessary case that makes it to the news, there are others we don’t hear about. These are the ones that families are too ashamed to disclose. Then there are scores of suicide attempts that leave parents desperately trying to convince schools to do the right thing.

The stakes have never been higher for students—or schools.