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Many in the LGBT community love sports. Sports, though, have rarely returned the affection. Basketball star Kobe Bryant highlighted the problem when he made an anti-gay slur in a televised game last April. In sports

It’s not too late to have civil, informed classroom conversations about the election.

Across the nation, schools struggle to celebrate athletic spirit without sinking to cheers and chants steeped in intolerance.

A first-year teacher uses journalism exercises—lessons learned from a favorite teacher—to build classroom unity and trust.

After the Southern Poverty Law Center responded to a plea for help from students in Savannah, Tenn., we’re happy to report that students successfully wore pro-LGBT slogans at school last week without resistance and with mostly positive responses from classmates.

Online education helps some students—and shortchanges others.

While wrapping up the school year, this teacher learned two powerful lessons from her students.

When I entered the classroom to interpret for the middle school parent and teacher conference, the student shouted that I wasn’t necessary. The teacher had called for my services because for two semesters she had been telling the mother that her son was flunking. And for two semesters, the mother had grinned ecstatically and said, “Thank you”—her only English words. The son had “interpreted” to his mother that he was on the honor roll.