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Youth seek solutions as Chicago’s violent summer continues

This Friday, the city of Chicago will lay to rest its youngest fatal shooting victim this year. Nine-year-old Antonio Smith was fatally shot at least four times in a South Side backyard just blocks away from his home, according to the Chicago Tribune. Since the summer of 2012, when the city recorded the nation's highest homicide count, shootings have become a large part of an ongoing discussion about relations between the police and residents, neighborhood safety and gun control legislation. Read More

Educators learn media literacy by producing artist profiles

In August, teachers and public media mentors joined the PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs to participate in the #SRLbootcamp2014 located in the Washington D.C. area. The bootcamp's goal was to provide teaching tools to help foster the next generation of journalists through media literacy in the classroom. The groups were tasked with the challenge of producing character profiles of local artists. Here are their final results. Read More

SRL Spotlight: Meredith DeMarois

Meredith DeMarois, a member of the inaugural SRL All-Stars Class, will be documenting her internship experience at MontanaPBS. Follow her journey here. Week 2: This past week I was able to focus on the thing I'm best at and the thing I'm worst at. Read More

SRL Spotlight: Gabriel Gamiño

Gabriel Gamiño, a member of the inaugural SRL All-Stars Class, will be documenting his intership experience at Arizona PBS. Follow his journey here. Week 5: Read More

Is integration important to today’s students?

To mark the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation decision, we asked our network of Student Reporting Labs across the country if integration should be a national goal. Here's a sampling of what they had to say. Read More