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America’s schools are more segregated now than they were in the late 1960s.

This year's civil rights anniversaries can be a call to action.

Teaching Tolerance director Maureen Costello talks empathy as a means to move forward.

Facing History and Ourselves offers lessons that illustrate the freedom our Founders envisioned.

Help your students travel through time with primary sources from the Library of Congress.

Mix It Up at Lunch Day is all about diversity. It celebrates the diversity of America’s classrooms. And it shows the diverse ways teachers can tackle cliquishness in schools. We were inspired by some of the great stories the day has generated. We thought we’d share three of them with you here.

The morning of the 10th anniversary of 9/11, I logged in to Facebook as I do most weekend mornings to see the status updates of 200 or so acquaintances. Many had posted links to news articles and patriotic photos or comments about their memory of that day in 2001. I was not prepared, however, to read a blatantly xenophobic post by someone I had gone to high school with. He called for the extermination of Islam and the strategic bombing of all countries in the Middle East.

Teaching with international films brings the world to your students. This toolkit for “Reel Life” provides information about suggested films that will “edu-tain” your students.

When we encourage our students to consider how power and privilege affect them, we must also anticipate that they’re going to want to do something about injustices they see.