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Online education helps some students—and shortchanges others.

Recently I suspended a seventh-grade boy for publicly calling his former girlfriend a “slut” and a “whore.” Our rules on slurs are clear. But as I learned again, talking about something in class doesn’t always affect student behavior, especially if the unwanted behavior isn’t corrected or condemned outside of the classroom.

What do you do when anti-bias teaching strategies are derailed by real, in-the-moment fears? See how one educator responded to Islamophobia in her classroom.

In New Orleans it’s called “mess.” That cancerous, manipulative drama that teenage girls get wrapped up in every year. We dealt with our share of it this year at my school, most of it within the seventh grade. It came to a head with two strong-willed young ladies yelling from behind their desks, exchanging threats and insults.

While reading and listening to the reflections of the high school seniors he teaches, one educator finds himself troubled by the persistence of outdated gender norms.

The editor of Teaching Tolerance addresses issues of school violence.

This blogger discusses the power of the pen to process tragic incidents, and she shares with readers her poem “(A)wake.”

What do we mean by the “American Dream”? This educator has some ideas for meaningfully engaging students with this topic.

Susie King Taylor's illegal education as an enslaved child turned her into a teenage teacher and nurse during the Civil War.