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The emancipation story remains largely incomplete, over 150 years later.

An Oakland-based nonprofit empowers low-income youth of color with technology skills.

I stood beside Samara, my appointed student leader, with my lips shut tight, overly expressive eyes and a dry-erase marker in hand. I was ready to respond to my students in writing on the 13th annual National Day of Silence.

In order to teach tolerance, a teacher must proactively bring in those who are typically left out of the mainstream. With the 2010 release of the HBO movie about her life, Temple Grandin may be going mainstream. But autism remains an enigma to most people. So I was thrilled when my student teacher, Eva Oliver, prepared a lesson about Temple Grandin and her work as a livestock equipment designer at the beginning of National Autism Awareness Month.

This teacher was worried about explaining her crutches to her class, but the third-graders taught her a lesson in acceptance.

Understanding political divides can help students learn to bridge them.