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A new use of the word accomplice pushed this educator to rethink her activist approaches inside and outside the classroom.

Helping students understand how ideology influences decisions allows them to be more thoughtful and engaged participants in society. Examining banned books is one way into that awareness and engagement.

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.

When I was growing up, most of my friends’ families had a mom and a dad. A few parents were divorced and that meant stepdads and stepmoms were also in the picture. That was about the extent of family diversity in my experience. During my teaching credential program, I learned about children having two moms or two dads. I made a mental note to remember this. I have discovered that family configurations are limitless and I now work to be inclusive, aware and respectful.

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

An angry mob beat the Freedom Riders when they arrived in Montgomery. How do you explain that to young children?

The trouble with Women’s History Month—with all these special months—is that they encourage people to think that problems have been solved.

Slavery never went away, and students need to know how it affects today’s world.

It was meet-the-teacher night at my elementary school. The room was ready for a new class of second-graders. The rubric for grading paragraphs and stories was on the wall around the writing center. A scientific method poster hung on the wall in the science corner. Essential questions for numbers and operations were on the chalkboard in the math area. And a picture commemorating the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education was on the social studies wall. I was ready to help my children become successful students.

Education pioneer Marva Collins died last week. She left behind tried and true strategies that support students’ brilliance and academic success.