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For education activist Bill Ayers, the secret of effective teaching is to see each child as one's own.

Fighting Islamophobia in schools means countering bias and misinformation when we hear it—and being aware of our own biases. Take an important step toward becoming an ally to Muslim students by brushing up on these

Every kid's a hero.

Using activist memoirs can help students understand how people effected change in the past—and how young people can effect change now.

To close an English unit on social activism, this teacher had her students reflect by recognizing and writing about the activist potential in their classmates.

A pair of news stories this week reported that students were being silenced and punished when they attempted to speak up for others. This is disappointing.

Editor’s note: The author of this essay prefers the pronoun they. In a poignant letter to their teenage self, Jey Ehrenhalt—a transgender educator and advocate—recalls jarring and painful experiences of their youth and describes how many schools urgently need to become more welcoming and supportive places for transgender students.

The empty space left by the death of a young person seems somehow larger—perhaps because we sense not only the absence of who he was, but also of who he could have become. This emptiness can engulf an entire community, even a nation, when the death is unjust.

Vermont students claim their legacy of participatory democracy.