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School and community programs foster friendships across the generations

Parlez-vous français? This educator reflects on what students on the autism spectrum, including her own daughter, can gain from foreign language study.

More public schools are discovering yoga for kids can benefit classroom management—and learning.

This activity is to accompany the Teaching Tolerance article “Story Corner: An Unlikely Friendship.”

Sonia is a quiet girl with a shy smile who never raises her hand in my class. Recently, she told me that she is bisexual. Sonia shared this during a conflict resolution meeting conducted for her and another girl in the class, Katie. She had a crush on Katie and had been pursuing her through frequent text messages. Sonia had persisted even though Katie had made it clear she only wanted to be friends. At the end of our meeting, Sonia agreed to stop texting Katie. By the end of the day they appeared to be friends again.

One teacher explains how she turned “Thanksgiving Trivia” into an opportunity to share under-taught history with her colleagues as well as her students, regardless of the time of year.

As we remember Linda Brown Thompson, we must also consider the reality of the world she lived in when, at the age of 9, she became the face of school desegregation.

This bill calls for “mutual cooperation and respect” concerning interactions with police—and it misses the point.