What mighty times we are in!  With the horrible school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas on February 14th, and after years of daily news reports of kids being shot and […]

How old should a student have to be to vote for the next president? What about the next president of the school board? Should more money go to school budgets?  […]

Great things are going on in the Des Moines schools.  Music, drama, poetry, art, debate, journalism… with so many student voices coming alive. We celebrated them in December, as part […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 9, 2015 Events Planned in Des Moines, Iowa, Schools to Mark 50th Anniversary of  “Tinker” Black Armband Events     A week of events in the […]

I hate to see students’ rights violated But I’ve seen it too often-  in my job as a nurse, on the news, and in schools.   And, I’ve seen how […]

It was a great week in Boston visiting Cambridge Rindge and Latin HS, Graham and Parks Elementary, education students at Tufts University, law students at Suffolk Law and journalism students […]

I met Colin at New York University Law School.  He said these are “mighty times” because so much is going on, and so many students are speaking up.  As I […]

Democracy is more than one election, and students are finding many other ways to participate in the decisions affecting their lives. I met so many this October who are standing […]