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As a child I asked my father whether there was someone like Martin Luther King Jr. who had fought for Latino rights. “Yes,” he said, and told me that his name was César Chávez. My father, a former farmworker who had toiled in the agricultural fields from childhood until adulthood, taught me about César Chávez, Dolores Huerta and the farmworker struggle.

A Teaching Tolerance Advisory Board member reflects on a recent gathering in Montgomery, Ala.

A new report from the Center for Community Alternatives shows how high school disciplinary records are used in college and university admissions.

Emotions can be frightening for all of us, especially for children. But if students don’t have the vocabulary to express their feelings, they may turn to acting out. This fails to resolve the feelings and makes a teacher’s life much more difficult.

This teacher uses activist memoirs and an engaging exercise to help her students overcome internal barriers to acting on their values.

Curriculum specialist and writer Jeff Sapp on starting a conversation in the face of pushback and ignorance.

My middle school students had started to use words like “bum,” “creeper,” and “hobo” to describe people who are homeless in our city. To my eighth-graders, it was comic relief.

A family of four came to speak to my high school juniors and seniors. Two dads and their 16-year-old daughter and 17-year-old son talked about their family, the adoption process and their experiences with discrimination and prejudice.

A ZIP code shouldn’t determine the quality of a student’s education.

Engage fourth- through eighth-graders in close readings and read-alouds of Margaret Auguste’s story “The Day I Swam into a New World” with the activities and audio recording in this toolkit.