New school year, new students take a stand!
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 […]
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“These Are Mighty Times!”
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 […]
October travels: Media Literacy, Freedom Summer, SPLC, Rob’t H Jackson
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 […]
Week in Review: Columbus, Portsmouth, Athens…Hello again, Ohio!
It was a great week in Ohio, with no shortage of controversy! First stop: Sept. 20: Law & Leadership Institute at Moritz Law School in Columbus, live-streamed to Akron, Cincinnati […]
The Constitution- Too Controversial for School? Happy Constitution Day!
Kids have great ideas, but without the First Amendment, we’ d never hear them. Chloe Olson-Rubiano had an idea… but her school thought it was too controversial. Free speech […]
Cesar Chavez students at Senate hearing on DC Statehood
Yesterday, at the Dirkson Senate Office Building, I met a group of middle students from Cesar Chavez middle school wearing “Statehood” buttons. When I asked them why, 12 […]
Back to school (for some)!
What a summer! From Ferguson to the border, from Congress testimony to White House vigils, kids took a stand. I met Rhaine when she spoke outside the White House on […]
Thank You!
More photos from the night here….
On Tour: Oh Canada!
So we began — and finished — the “Tinker World Tour” on the same day with a visit to Burnaby Mountain Secondary School, outside Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, organized by the Justice […]
On Tour: Mountlake High School (Seattle)
Talk about going out in style! The Washington Journalism Education Association, the Washington ACLU and Mountlake High School, in Mountlake, Wash., just north of Seattle, rolled out the red carpet for us May 1 […]
