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It’s time for us and our students to talk about the word lame.

This piece is a resource for the Teaching Tolerance article Making Numbers Count.A Rhode Island math teacher offers a new model for analyzing social issues.

Texas is in the throes of rewriting the curriculum standards for its K-12 textbooks. And that is something to be very, very worried about.

I walked down the newly plowed row with my grandpa, feeling the warm, red clay on the soles of my bare feet and listened to his stories and words of advice. I held a tomato plant in my hands, the rich, black potting soil falling off of the small, vulnerable roots, as he knelt and dug a place for it in the garden. “Hey,” he’d often start, “here's something my daddy told me when I was little. ‘God gave you two ears and one mouth because He wants you to listen twice as much as you speak. If you do that, you'll learn something. If you don't, you won't.’”

Susie King Taylor's illegal education as an enslaved child turned her into a teenage teacher and nurse during the Civil War.

The latest in culturally aware literature and resources for teachers of all grades.

Students can learn about local struggles for justice through primary sources. This toolkit will help you collaborate with staff at a local library or archive to locate primary sources that teach your students about their community’s history.

Primary sources can help students explore just how controversial voting rights were in the century preceding the Act.

Teaching Tolerance director Maureen Costello advises educators not to shy away from teaching this election.