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Centering the needs of underserved people often has a broader impact on the community. The same is true in schools.

A teacher gave students a simple task: Be kind, but selfless. The results illustrate the contagious effects of humanity.

This online sidebar accompanies the Teaching Tolerance article " Possession Obsession." LGBT teenagers have the same vulnerabilities to abusive dating as straight kids—and then some. “There’s an added layer for these

Mary loves Sunday mornings and the spirituals that give her, Mama and other enslaved people hope.

Explorations of faiths at school.

Workshops help teachers talk about prejudice and discrimination.

Religious topics have long been a touchy subject in public schools and none of them touchier than atheism. For young people though, the taboo surrounding unbelief appears to be disappearing. Recent surveys have found that younger Americans are the least likely to be religious. According to the American Religious Identification Survey, 29 percent of 18-29 year olds are religiously unaffiliated, compared with 15 percent of the population as a whole. And a 2006 Pew Research poll found that 1 in 5 young people said they have no religious affiliation, nearly double the proportion of the late 1980s.