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Prepare yourself to discuss race, racism and other difficult topics with students.

The Supreme Court has upheld affirmative action but, one educator points out, we still have a long way to go to achieve equity in college admissions.

Study circles help students talk constructively about race.

We can't talk about racism without it.

General Mills recently ran an ad for Cheerios cereal featuring an interracial couple and their child. This is cause for celebration and an opportunity to help students explore race and expand media literacy. Unfortunately, not all viewers saw it that way.

Every time a new study is released showing black students are suspended at far higher rates than any of their peers, the public seems shocked. Words like “race” and “school to prison pipeline” and “discrimination” find their way into headlines—and then the issue fades away yet again.

Careful planning, thoughtfulness and alliances will help educators avoid the pitfalls of Black History Month.

A recent Cheerios commercial reminds us of the historical roots of race in the United States. Those roots still cause social and political upset.

This piece is to accompany James Loewen's feature story " Getting the Civil War Right." Recently I spent two years at the Smithsonian Institution surveying 12 popular American history textbooks, learning how teachers use