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Teachers don’t want to be called saints or soldiers. Let’s mark Teacher Appreciation Week with a commitment to go beyond the rhetoric and speak accurately about teaching as a profession.

A small Catholic school and its students grapple with life and learning in the shadow of two nations.

Students need historic context to connect activism of the past to social issues in the present.

An anti-bias trainer shares her techniques for fostering appreciation of different body types.

The epidemic of rape won’t end until males own up to its causes.

A simple writing assignment sharpens students’ minds — and challenges their biases.

Why is that English language learner sitting in the back of the classroom and not speaking up? Maybe she just needs a friend.

During a period of ramped-up online trolling, educators can help their students understand what trolling really is, its impact and how to protect their identities on the internet.

Billy Lucas grew up an Indiana farm boy in Greensburg—halfway between Indianapolis and Cincinnati, Ohio. He grew up winning blue ribbons for his prized and much loved horses and lambs. He also grew up enduring taunts, threats, and physical abuse from bullies. He grew up with those bullies telling him he should kill himself because they thought he was gay. Whether he was or not, Billy never said.

Most students have heard Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. They also know of Rosa Parks’ refusal to move to the back of the bus. Unfortunately for many students, knowledge of the civil rights movement stops there.