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To help her students understand each other’s stories, backgrounds and experiences—and to improve their writing—this teacher added blogging to her curriculum.

Investigate borders with these lesson ideas from the Smithsonian Institution Center for Cultural and Folklife Heritage.

School and community gardens yield cooperation and understanding.

A community museum reaches out to schools and families.

Sometimes school tracking sets students up for failure, academically and socially. My students with disabilities, who require extra academic assistance, often ended up on the short end of the stick. Because they were in all of the same classes together I noticed that they also clung to each other in the cafeteria. They had a difficult time fitting in and making friends with other students.

Poet Adrienne Rich once asked: How can we connect the process of learning to write well with [a] student’s own reality, and not simply teach her/him how to write acceptable lies in standard English? The question appeared in her 1979 essay, “Taking Women Students Seriously.” Last week, Adrienne Rich passed away, leaving today’s educators to ponder alone a question that remains as pertinent as ever.

Complete interviews with 14 Americans about the legacy and impact of 'Brown v. Board.'

See la bomba Puertorriqueña in action!