End of the School Year: What have you learned about yourself and about school?
As the school year draws to a close, we wanted to check in with students so they could tell us what they’ve learned this year about themselves and about school.
Press
The kids are not alright: PBS podcast on mental health puts teens behind the mic
Noah Konevitch of Lebanon, Pennsylvania and Zion Williams of Clinton Township, Michigan are highschoolers and co-hosts of the PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs podcast On Our Minds with Noah and Zion.
Michigan Radio
PBS NewsHour debuts Teen Mental Health Podcast “On Our Minds”
After more than a year of battling a pandemic, lockdowns, economic hardship, and remote schooling challenges, it’s no wonder that mental health among teens is a urgent issue. For the PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs, the answer to address the issue was to have teens talk about teenage mental health concerns.
Frank Racioppi, Medium
How the U.S. plans to address educational inequities, teacher burnout and school shootings
More than half of public schools around the country are back to full time in-person classes. But many school districts still are using distance or hybrid learning, and there are many questions ahead about what it will take to reopen more fully in the coming months. Read more>
PBS NewsHour
Students in Upstate New York Participate in Election 2020 Youth Media Challenge
Throughout Fall 2020, high school students in Scott Symons’ Social Studies class at Windsor High School participated in ‘Let’s Talk About Election 2020‘, a national youth media challenge. Read more.