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My son was a 16-year-old high school junior on 9/11/2001. He could see the twin towers burning a few miles across the harbor from his school in Staten Island, N.Y. Across the country, other students watched the images on television, either as they were happening or later, as they looped endlessly on cable news.

Alternative certification gives educators a different route to the classroom. Does it make them fish out of water once they get there?

This piece accompanies the Teaching Tolerance article "Opening Doors on the Border."

Religious topics have long been a touchy subject in public schools and none of them touchier than atheism. For young people though, the taboo surrounding unbelief appears to be disappearing. Recent surveys have found that younger Americans are the least likely to be religious. According to the American Religious Identification Survey, 29 percent of 18-29 year olds are religiously unaffiliated, compared with 15 percent of the population as a whole. And a 2006 Pew Research poll found that 1 in 5 young people said they have no religious affiliation, nearly double the proportion of the late 1980s.

If we look into the heart of bullying, what we often find are deficits of emotional control and empathy. Teaching mindfulness can help.

Using activist memoirs can help students understand how people effected change in the past—and how young people can effect change now.

A Southern Poverty Law Center lawyer relates to a student who has been suspended repeatedly from a Florida school district where the Center is challenging the discriminatory treatment of African-American children.

Racial stress can silence children. Storytelling can awaken their voices.

The TT audience weighed in on a school dilemma ripped from the headlines: ‘Students petition to display Confederate flag at school, turn in 300 signatures.’