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These Perspectives for a Diverse America resources for all grades are sure to help you get the new semester off to a good start.

The “whys” and “hows” of teaching about religious radicalism.

My son was a 16-year-old high school junior on 9/11/2001. He could see the twin towers burning a few miles across the harbor from his school in Staten Island, N.Y. Across the country, other students watched the images on television, either as they were happening or later, as they looped endlessly on cable news.

Teaching Tolerance director Lecia J. Brooks reflects on the still segregated nature of our public schools.

How much can teachers disclose about their personal religious and nonreligious beliefs to students?

This interview with teacher Lisa Weinbaum accompanies her Teaching Tolerance article "'At Risk' of Greatness."

How parents can teach kids that all history counts.

In almost every public school in the United States, attitudes and behaviors in the classroom presume an unacknowledged, yet pervasive, Christian norm. How does this affect students who are not Christian?