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As I head back to the classroom, I think about the last school year. In the second-to-last week of school, my fifth-grade classroom was 90 degrees, with no air conditioning. My students were sitting together, helping each other, laughing, struggling and having fun. At the beginning of the year, they were unsure of each other. They smiled politely but kept to themselves or the friends they knew and never asked for help. So what had changed?

Anti-hate and anti-bullying policies aren’t enough in the fight against Islamophobia.

This history teacher elevates his lessons on stereotyping to the next level. How? By engaging his students in reflective investigations of power, history and intention.

By outward appearance, this writer looks white—but she doesn't see herself that way.

What do the data tell us? According to the Center for American Progress, “At some point over the next 10 to 12 years, the nation’s public school student body will have no one clear racial or ethnic majority. In other

A whitewashed history of the ancient world lays the foundation for white supremacy across the curriculum.