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

My third-hour class was a challenge. The students were young, the class was large, and most students just needed a required fine art credit. Not great art lovers, they spent their considerable energy doing everything but their art projects.

One hundred eighty years ago today, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830. This law set in motion the long, agonizing chain of events that ultimately led to the Trail of Tears.

How is a Perspectives learning plan different from traditional lesson plans?

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

A few years ago, First Lady Michelle Obama was criticized for revealing some not-so-flattering details about her husband, Barack: He snores. His morning breath is “stinky.” He never picks up his dirty socks. To those who said this was too much information about the president of the United States, Mrs. Obama had an answer. “Barack is very much human,” she told Glamour magazine, “so let’s not deify him.” Putting somebody on a pedestal, she said, is only preparation for knocking him from it.

Five years after the tragedy that shook our nation, the people of Columbine High School reflect on growth and healing.

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