Addressing LGBT topics makes schools safer, more inclusive and helps curb the marginalization of LGBT people for the present and for future generations.
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On Monday, Ahmed Mohamed, a fourteen year old high school freshman with a talent for tinkering and technology, brought a homemade digital clock he constructed to sch…
Last week, over 700 Jewish teens from across the United States and Canada gathered in Baltimore, MD as part of United Synagogue Youth’s International Convention.
It is the most basic need any student has during the school day: using the restroom safely and comfortably when you need to. It is the first sign of independence bef…
Marriage equality, refugees seeking safety in Europe, the Confederate flag, police shootings of black and Latino men, the presidential election, Caitlyn Jenner, ISIS, and immigration are just a few of the news stories that inhabited the headlines this year...
The political discourse has reached a point where we have to ask ourselves: What should we tell our children? …
It’s April 12, 2016 – Equal Pay Day, the symbolic date that women need to work until to catch up with what men had earned by last Dec. 31. The fact is that women who work full t…
Fears of extremism, radicalization and mass violence in our schools have unfortunately become all too common for educators and school administrators across the Unite…
Ed Blumenthal is fighting anti-Semitism and hate with everything he’s got—including his legs. His late father, Ernie Blumenthal, escaped from Nazi Vienna in 1938, but luckily fou…
Beginning on Memorial Day and for four consecutive evenings this week, the History Channel will air its 2016 version of ‘Roots,’ a remake of the 1977 television mini…
The unspeakable tragedy that took place at the Pulse Club in Orlando, FL in the early morning of June 12 brings with it a wide range of emotions for people across the country and…
This is not the first presidential election where candidates have engaged in name-calling and put-downs. Throughout history, name-calling has been used on the campai…
It has been a rough summer as the topic of guns, violence, police and bias scream across the news headlines and our smart phones.
The outcome of the lengthy, emotional and controversial2016 presidential electioncampaign can be difficult to sort out, especially for young people. We know that children and t…
On Saturday, January 21, 2017, the day after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, 500,000 people gathered in Washington, DC for theWomen’s March–to express their…
To meet the challenge of navigating the current environment in which inequity and injustice are prevalent, educators need to lead with empathy and create an anti-bias environment.