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When JT Eberhard of the Secular Student Alliance (SSA), an organization providing support to nontheistic students, received a letter from a teacher bragging about blocking formation of an atheist club, the lack of a return address didn’t slow him down. He used the email address provided by the sender to locate the teacher and alert administrators.

As new generations come along, we hope the old beliefs mired in hate and separation will die out. The lines that once separated us continue to fade. We have evidence. Our society is more accepting now than it was decades ago of multiracial relationships, multiracial families and multiracial children. Blogger Pamela Cytrynbaum says the new generation is “rejecting the color lines” that once constrained them. The New York Times writer Susan Saulny poignantly describes the younger generation as having a “more fluid sense of identity.”

Misinformation and online hate are crisis-level threats to democracy and liberation movements. Digital literacy education must be among the solutions.

Want to do your part to make schools safer? Use National Youth Violence Prevention Week as a starting point for year-round planning.

A small town sees itself as larger than life.

Teaching Tolerance asks educators about the social climate of their classrooms

A domestic violence counselor reflects on recent assaults in our schools.

We’ve changed our name to better reflect our mission and our work.

Encouraging students to take an interest in the well-being of others is not indoctrination: It’s the right thing to do.