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Each spring, at the start of baseball season, fourth-graders at my school connect with Shorty, a character from Ken Mochizuki’s book Baseball Saved Us. Shorty’s a Japanese-American child who plays baseball on a makeshift field in an internment camp during World War II. Mochizuki’s consummate read-aloud story encourages a fired-up discussion in the library. Students talk about the inequities and intolerances foisted on kids and adults alike. It’s the kind of lesson that I thoroughly enjoy teaching, year after year.

Our schools are critical tools for helping newly arrived immigrant students adjust to their new homes. What’s the best way to know how to help? Listen.

Children of Appalachia gain pride in their heritage and history

First-In-Family Immigrant Students Face a Double Challenge When Applying to Colleges.

This activity is to accompany the Teaching Tolerance article "Identity."

For rural schools, the growing use of technology can create new problems as it solves old ones.