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How would your students answer this question?

As I head back to the classroom, I think about the last school year. In the second-to-last week of school, my fifth-grade classroom was 90 degrees, with no air conditioning. My students were sitting together, helping each other, laughing, struggling and having fun. At the beginning of the year, they were unsure of each other. They smiled politely but kept to themselves or the friends they knew and never asked for help. So what had changed?

The Supreme Court has upheld affirmative action but, one educator points out, we still have a long way to go to achieve equity in college admissions.

Recent comments about the “controversy” over the causes of the Civil War highlight the challenges of teaching American history in 2017.

A look at the 'dream deferred' and the legacy of Dr. King's dream.

Students from both sides of Chicago's school-funding divide are coming together to demand equality. In the process, they're crossing barriers of race and social class.

As the number of obese and overweight children grows, so does size bias.