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This toolkit for “Rock the Vote” lists 12 practical ways teachers and their students can rock the vote at school.

Last week, we posed a question to students via their teachers: What advice would you give to the new president? Their thoughtful responses blew us away.

Recently my family stopped at the Civil War battlefield at Vicksburg, Miss., to take a walk and soak in some history. Near the monument to Louisiana’s troops stood a young boy, about 8 or 9, with his mom and dad. The boy was dressed up as a gray-clad Confederate soldier. The combination of the outfit and the Confederate flag sticker on his family’s car told me something important about this boy. It told me that he was a lot like me at that age.

Watching a television program featuring deaf and hard of hearing characters changed this teacher’s perspective. She wants to pass it on to her students.

I felt myself straighten in my chair. I quickly shook off the tiredness of a long day of teaching when our professor explained most of us found it difficult to understand multicultural education “because our viewpoint was that of the white, upper middle class.”

Two experts offer opinions on what to expect from the economic crisis - and how to help your students cope.

Why are there so few girls in computer science? And how can we change that?

Sean Price's interview with Arizona State University Professor Neal A. Lester. Lester has twice taught courses on the n-word—and found there’s plenty to talk about.

Low income should not mean low expectations.