We reached out to students around the country working to keep their schools safe from gun violence. Mary Cox is a senior at Marshall County High School, where two students were killed in a school shooting in January 2018.
The young activists who emerged from the Parkland, Florida, school shooting offer educators a tremendous opportunity to celebrate the power of youth activism—past and present.
In 1916, one family battled against the unjust laws aimed at immigrants of Japanese ancestry. In doing so, they lent their own voices to the growing chorus of Asian Americans insisting: "We belong here."