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Teachers, principals and school districts nationwide are grappling with how to respond to the increase in deportations and heightened fears of students and families.

Now, more than ever, the teaching of Reconstruction needs to be a central component of history education in high school.

Children’s books are a common way to introduce the topic of slavery to our youngest students. But what do we do when the stories get it wrong?

Mendez v. Westminster has gone largely unrecognized in history instruction. If it is mentioned at all, the case is often tagged as a precursor to the civil rights movement or as the Mexican-American version of Brown v

A Cincinnati school serves Mix It Up as part of academic life.

Denver students confront racial tracking at their high school.

Recently my family stopped at the Civil War battlefield at Vicksburg, Miss., to take a walk and soak in some history. Near the monument to Louisiana’s troops stood a young boy, about 8 or 9, with his mom and dad. The boy was dressed up as a gray-clad Confederate soldier. The combination of the outfit and the Confederate flag sticker on his family’s car told me something important about this boy. It told me that he was a lot like me at that age.