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A law fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center details a disturbing pattern: A student is arrested for minor misbehavior, the parents are kept in the dark, and the family finds itself navigating the criminal justice system.

National Youth Violence Prevention Week is April 4-8, 2016. Learn what you and your students can do to promote nonviolence.

It’s with mixed emotions that I approach my last day working with the group of student teachers in the graduate course I am teaching. There is so much to learn. Following are lessons I hope all preservice teachers will take as they embark upon the most challenging and rewarding task of their lives: becoming teachers.

Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights curriculum inspires students to defend human rights today.

An anti-bias club changes the atmosphere at a suburban high school

After the Southern Poverty Law Center responded to a plea for help from students in Savannah, Tenn., we’re happy to report that students successfully wore pro-LGBT slogans at school last week without resistance and with mostly positive responses from classmates.

Teaching about religious extremism can be challenging, but not teaching about it may sow seeds of intolerance. This toolkit for "Extreme Prejudice" is an activity that teaches students about religious diversity and that extremists—in any religion—represent a small minority of people.

Students with learning disabilities create a documentary film to share their wisdom.

This toolkit accompanies the story corner “Michael's Diary” and provides classroom resources for making student journals, as well as prompts that encourage students at all grade levels to express who they are through writing.