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Envisioning schools that affirm and protect Black students means reckoning with a long history of racist punishment.

Many affluent students are oblivious to issues of race and class. Here are two teaching strategies designed to open their eyes.

There are some new labels kids have created for one another since I was in school. When I grew up, there were no skaters or noobs. No one was goth or emo. In my day, kids who wore collared shirts and madras were preppy. Kids who smoked cigarettes and listened to Led Zeppelin were burnouts. Jocks were still jocks, although the jocks of my youth were all-inclusive. Today, they separate themselves by sport.

When I teach lessons about Martin Luther King Jr., I always wonder exactly how students will connect with the events and themes. My adult students are refugees and immigrants from different cultural backgrounds. Some of them were cultural minorities in their countries. Others are experiencing racial discrimination for the first time in the United States.

Student journalism can promote tolerance and inclusion.

The American dream discriminates on the basis of color. How do we explain that to African-American children?

Every kid's a hero.