As leaders in a movement working with young people who have been repeatedly failed by the very institutions designed to support them, we owe it to men of color to change our system and help them reach their full potential.
For the first time, more Latinos were accepted into University of California schools than their white counterparts. California’s nine undergraduate…
More teachers are looking to detailed data to figure out which students are most likely to drop out of high school, long before the kids have even entered ninth grade.
Kids say one thing making it hard for schools to crack down on e-cigarettes — is that they’re easy to hide. Twelve-year-olds Jennifer Shape explains, “Sometimes I hear that some of my friends do it their classroom when the teacher is not looking.”
I’ve heard from the students themselves reasons as to why learning is difficult for them to engage in from the students themselves and one reason is that teachers don’t care whether they pass their class or not. Many of these students believe that it’s a teachers negative attitude and stereotypic judgment that’s denying them the motivation to learn, attend class or even apply any effort into their schoolwork.
I’m in the International Baccalaureate (IB) program — also called the International High School — perceived by students as being the most rigorous program… as well as the whitest.
Some 30 percent of adolescents in California report experiencing depression or related feelings, such as anger, anxiety or guilt, according to Kidsdata.org. As with Morimoto’s friend, many of these young people turn to their peers first for help.
My heart sinks whenever I’m asked on a scholarship application to list my extracurricular activities. Each time I fill it out, I feel as plain as a plate of boiled potatoes without cream or butter.
I graduated high school in 2012, so I missed out on the Common Core. But when I went to Meadow Homes Elementary in Concord, California, I was curious — what’s all the hype about?
