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A developmental psychologist investigates how children think about fairness and exclusion.

B loves bugs. I met him during the first week of school as I conducted the standard assessment of how many words he could read per minute from a second-grade story. After the assessment, I gave him the customary caterpillar sticker to put on his shirt to show everyone that he was going to emerge as a great reader during his second-grade year.

Leslie, a 38-year-old social worker who counsels children with stressful life situations, found her 4-year-old daughter, Sophia, engaged in animated play with her dolls. She watched incredulously as Sophia invited the four white dolls with blonde hair to a tea party while the dark-skinned doll with black hair lay alone across the room.

The rhetoric used by this summer’s Olympic media has given educators many rich examples to introduce students to intersectionality.

A recent issue of Teaching Tolerance magazine addressed two subjects that I see converging in news stories from around the country – intolerant attitudes toward students who are atheist and teachers using their positions to bully students.

An Oregon educator breaks the logjam of environmental conflict.

Teacher-librarian Amy Hamrick found out the hard way why it’s important to learn about students’ many cultures.

Followers of Islam face widespread prejudice in the United States. How can teachers help students overcome these attitudes?

Educator Gerardo Muñoz on the critical importance of centering community—this school year more than ever.