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This piece accompanies the Teaching Tolerance article "Opening Doors on the Border."

The problems of rural schools are often invisible to the public and policymakers. The solutions may be found in the communities themselves.

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.

On Feb. 10, 2015, three Muslim university students of Arab descent were shot and killed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, leaving an educational community shocked and reeling. Criticisms quickly surfaced in the United States and internationally that many U.S. media organizations did not adequately cover this horrific crime or its aftermath. This toolkit offers a media literacy activity that educators can use to explore these topics with students.

The first turbaned and bearded editorial cartoonist in the United States shares his journey as a survivor of bullying.

How do you encourage colleagues to participate in sustained conversations about justice, equity and tolerance?