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Use these questions to help students develop critical literacy and historical thinking skills.

The tragic loss of Michael Brown presents an opportunity to help students connect with our collective humanity.

Sometimes teachers have to think outside the box to reach students. This educator found his work requires great expansion.

How do we help students fine-tune their skepticism so that it leads to knowledge-seeking and openness to new ideas?

This fourth-grade teacher, a TT Award winner, offers some classroom suggestions to make Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day an opportunity for deep, personal engagement—not a day off.

For the first time in 34 years, this social studies teacher feels forced to not do his job when it comes to teaching the election.

Burning brightly or burning out? Maintain your pep and bypass burnout with these tips.

Grades: 4-8 Subjects: Social Studies, Reading and Language Arts, ELL/ESL Categories: Race and ethnicity; History Story Corner is a student-directed feature in Teaching Tolerance magazine. In the current issue, we tell

Singer, actor and activist Nick LaTour died Monday. To many children in Alabama and across the country, LaTour was a consummate storyteller who was able to bring the civil rights movement to life. People who heard him sing will forever be touched by his baritone renditions of spirituals or civil rights anthems.