Esmeralda Barcenas, 13, plays during a piano lesson at the Community Music School, a Raleigh nonprofit that offers affordable private music lessons to low-income families, in this file photo for 2017.

A few historic one-room schools still dot the Missouri landscape. Their history still teaches us lessons about successful communities and working together. One-room schools still reveal valuable ...

STEM curricula in the US don’t often expose students to perspectives on culture, history and power nor equip them with effective community engagement skills. Here, instructor and students share ...

For lack of one person in one critical role, a whole community can disintegrate. On a visit to Eagle Island, in Penobscot Bay, in the 1980s, Ralston took the photo he titled “The Lesson,” of an ...