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For the second week in a row, I was left partnerless in my graduate class. It was my own fault, I guess. I didn’t feel like moving. As I scanned the room, no one made eye contact with me or motioned toward me. It was clear that I would have to make the first move to ask to be included in a group—and, after a day filled with hundreds of tiny setbacks, I just didn’t feel like it.

Maybe you’re thinking texting has no place in the classroom. This teacher found some practical applications.

As a child I asked my father whether there was someone like Martin Luther King Jr. who had fought for Latino rights. “Yes,” he said, and told me that his name was César Chávez. My father, a former farmworker who had toiled in the agricultural fields from childhood until adulthood, taught me about César Chávez, Dolores Huerta and the farmworker struggle.

It’s National Book Month—the perfect time to motivate readers by using YA literature in the classroom!

Primary sources can help students explore just how controversial voting rights were in the century preceding the Act.

A new book sheds light on the lesser-known struggles behind the March—and how students can benefit from learning about them.

Children are susceptible to superficial notions of beauty, but this teacher believes the real purpose of education is to give them a different message.