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A play based on real events in Billings, Mont., illuminates issues of tolerance and understanding for young students.

Teaching Tolerance director Maureen Costello looks back on our 20th birthday.

Grades: 9-12 Subjects: Reading and Language Arts, Social Studies, ELL/ESL, Science and Health Categories: Religion; Diversity and Inclusion; Bullying and Exclusion; Stereotypes and Bias This Teaching Tolerance story

Summer is the most violent time of year in urban areas. Some cite hotter temperatures, while others point the finger at out-of-school teenagers. No one factor is to blame, but it makes sense to provide opportunities for young people while keeping them off the streets. Summer service programs can help.

Young people make great political activists. How can you get them involved in fighting for issues that matter?

What do you do with a teacher who provides students with authentic learning opportunities? A teacher who invests her own resources to support students? A teacher who was voted Teacher of the Year two of the last three years? If you’re Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell at the Pontiac Academy for Excellence Middle School in Pontiac, Mich., you fire her.

Many boys at my school struggle with reading. Most are more interested in video games and outdoor activities than books. Our school is not an anomaly.

This educator wants young people to know that a small group of organized, passionate and hardworking people is behind a national movement.

Fundraising has become standard for most schools—but an education system that relies on private donations will never be equitable.

Many kids listen to music as often as they possibly can. Educators can tap into students’ interests in music by teaching them to critically read the lyrics they are listening to—and promote social justice through that examination.