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The trouble with Women’s History Month—with all these special months—is that they encourage people to think that problems have been solved.

An after-school teacher uses trivia to get her elementary students thinking about the world around them—including civil rights history.

It’s time to intervene with alarmingly high preschool suspensions.

Through a grant from Teaching American History, I was part of a group of teachers who spent months reading, listening and watching films and videos about the civil rights movement before we took a trip to the South. But still it was history—far away, untouchable and remote. That was until the first day in Sumner, Miss.

The anniversary of the integration of Little Rock’s public schools gives us the opportunity to reexamine the long-term, societal impact of the Supreme Court’s 1954 'Brown v. Board of Education' decision.

In a recent discussion about a history reading, I asked students if they understood the need to think critically about what we read, even if the reading is labeled “historical.”