No Name-Calling Week is a program aimed at elementary and secondary school students to promote acceptance and understanding of the differences among us.  Now in its eighth year, the program’s stated goal is to “end name-calling of all kinds.”

We support this effort with the following playlist of songs urging kindness, love and mutual respect:

1. Don’t Laugh At Me Mark Wills; Wish You Were Here (Mercury)
2. Good Left Undone, The Rise Against; The Sufferer & The Witness (Geffen)
3. If Everyone Cared Nickelback; All The Right Reasons (Roadrunner/IDJMG)
4. Let Me Be Myself 3 Doors Down; 3 Doors Down (Universal Republic)
5. Point Of Light Randy Travis; Heroes And Friends (Warner Bros.)

For some songs on this subject, see GreenBookofSongs.com® categories Character & Integrity and Teaching Values.

Time for teachers to welcome students back to school! Here are some songs to make it fun for all involved.

1. Back To School Again Four Tops; When She Was My Girl (Island Def Jam)
2. Fifteen Taylor Swift; Fearless (Big Machine)
3. First Day Of School Imagination Movers; Juice Box Heroes (Walt Disney)
4. Get’cha Head In The Game B5; ST/High School Musical (Walt Disney)
5. New Kid In School Alphabet Rockers; Alphabet Rockers (School Time)
6. Principal’s Office Young M.C.; Stone Cold Rhymin’ (Delicious Vinyl)
7. School Is In Josie Cotton; Valley Girl-Music From The Soundtrack-C (Rhino/WEA)
8. Theme From “Welcome Back, Kotter” John Sebastian; Best Of John Sebastian (Rhino)
9. We’re Going To Be Friends White Stripes; White Blood Cells (Warner Bros.)

For more songs on this topic, see GreenBookofSongs.com® categories Beginnings, Friends and School.

On October 3, 2009, Readers Digest sponsors Make It Matter Day, a national day to support learning, literacy and education. To support this wonderful cause, we compiled this list of songs that encourage children and teens to learn and grow through reading.

1. Conjunction Junction Better Than Ezra; ST/Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks (Atlantic)
2. Funny The Way It Is Dave Matthews Band; Big Whiskey And The GrooGux King (RCA/RMG)
3. Lost In A Book Kristin Lems; Imagine That! Songs For Creative Teachers (Carolsdatter)
4. Return To Pooh Corner Kenny Loggins; Return To Pooh Corner (Sony Wonder)
5. Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 18 Bryan Ferry; Diana Princess Of Wales-Tribute-C (Columbia)
6. Summer I Read Collete, The Rosanne Cash; 10 Song Demo (Capitol)

Find programs to support Make It Matter Day on their website!

The new school year is rolling around. Here’s a playlist of songs about subjects we’ll be studying — English literature, foreign languages, history, science and math, even music!

1. Brush Up Your Shakespeare Original Cast; Kiss Me Kate (Sony Music Classical)
2. French Lesson Sandler & Young; The “In Person” Album (Ralton)
3. Multiplication Animaniacs; Animaniacs-Variety Pac (Kid Rhino)
4. Particle Man They Might Be Giants; Flood (Elektra)
5. Sailing To Philadelphia Mark Knopfler; Sailing To Philadelphia (Warner Bros.)
6. Sing A Happy Song O’Jays; Identify Yourself (Philadelphia Int’l)
7. Tom Joad-Part I Woody Guthrie; Dust Bowl Ballads (RCA Camden Classics)
8. We Didn’t Start The Fire Billy Joel; Storm Front (Columbia)

 For more songs on this subject, see GreenBookofSongs.com® categories such as Books, Countries: America, History, Music and Science & Math.

It’s back-to-school time. Here are some songs that may help get students in the mood after summer break.

1. American Friday Night Bucky Covington; Bucky Covington (Lyric Street)
2. Back To School Again Four Tops; When She Was My Girl (Island Def Jam)
3. Don’t Be A Dropout James Brown; Star Time (Polydor)
4. Fifteen Taylor Swift; Fearless (Big Machine)
5. First Day Of School Jitterbug Theatre; Kasey Keller Learns To Read (Jitterbug Theatre)
6. School Is In Josie Cotton; Valley Girl-Music From The Soundtrack-C (Rhino/WEA)

Find more songs about this subject in the GreenBookofSongs.com® category School.

On the 10th anniversary of the tragic school shooting at Columbine, this playlist is dedicated to the memory of those who died. Some of these songs focus on victims of violence, and some focus on the tortured souls of those who commit it. All of them speak to the need to nurture each child, so that we may stop the cycle.

1. Anatomy Of A School Shooting Ill Bill; Lock & Load-C (Copter)
2. Black Shadow Symphony Westworld; Skin (Dreamscape)
3. Cassie Flyleaf; Flyleaf (Octone/J)
4. Disposable Teens Marilyn Manson; Lest We Forget-The Best Of Marilyn Manson (Nothing/Interscope)
5. Hammerhead Offspring; Rise And Fall, Rage And Grace (Columbia)
6. Joke, The Lifehouse; Who We Are (Geffen/Interscope)
7. Stole Kelly Rowland; Simply Deep (Columbia)
8. This Is Your Time Michael W. Smith; This Is Your Time (Reunion)

Find more songs on this topic in the GreenBookofSongs.com® category Children: Children & Violence.

C = Compilation