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Gay-straight alliances are taking hold in middle schools, where homophobia and anti-gay harassment may be the most rampant.

Guidelines that can help you address the concerns that often surround teaching about religion in public schools.

Trauma shows many faces. Schools that recognize them can be places of healing.

The stakes have never been higher for students—or schools.

Students, like adults, need to feel as if their talents and interests are valuable to their communities.

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.