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Children need help learning to see perspectives that differ from their own, and teachers can guide them—even in preschool and the early grades.

The year I taught art in the dysfunctional chaos of an overcrowded urban middle school with weak administrators, practically everyone in the school—both students and teachers—needed a "safe place."

Last weekend, the Southern Poverty Law Center and two partners struck a legal agreement with the Anoka-Hennepin School District in Minnesota. Amid revolution in Egypt and fears of a monster snowstorm in the Midwest, this was hardly top-shelf news. But the agreement really was a big deal for LGBT students.

Rodrigue drove me nuts. He stood too close and talked too much. If his hand was raised and I didn’t call on him, his face would contort and he would put his head down on his desk. He answered questions with a “know-it-all” tone that the other students (and I) found obnoxious.

For students living in instability, a safe classroom becomes a second home.

This toolkit will provide you and your colleagues with extra resources for learning about equity issues related to school lunch, as well as an opportunity to take action in making lunchtime a just time at your school.

Teaching Tolerance managing editor Brian Willoughby remembers Rosa Parks and her radical legacy.

Why is that English language learner sitting in the back of the classroom and not speaking up? Maybe she just needs a friend.