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The Many Faces of Multi-Cultural Education |
| For most people, learning a new language is difficult. Living in a strange country surrounded by people who talk and act in unfamiliar ways is even more unsettling. But doing all of that, while maintaining your identity and first language, can seem like an insurmountable task. Nevertheless, about 10 million students, ages 5 to 18, do it every day in our country. Young journalists at Y-Press have created this primer on the changing theories and practice of multicultural education, stretching from the mid -1900s. |
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Just Listen: Students Talk About Learning—Part 4 |
| In this fourth installment of our “Just Listen” series of one-minute video clips, high school students talk about their personal "take aways" from reflecting on and assessing their own progress as learners. These students are blessed, we hasten to add, by attending schools that prize student-centered learning; view assessment as ongoing, multi-dimensional, and collaborative; track social and emotional development along with academic; and embrace individualized assessment and student reflection. |
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Indianapolis Students Examine Charter Schools |
| When charter schools were first proposed in 1988, they were envisioned as an extension of public schools where teachers could experiment with different educational models. They would be fonts of innovation, freeing teachers from the restrictions of traditional schools and allowing them to communicate and share best practices with their public school counterparts. In this article, Y-Press journalists examine charter schools and their promises. |
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Occupy Movement: Hands-on Civics Lessons for High School Students |
| Across the country, high school students have been collecting their thoughts about the Occupy Movement, visiting Occupy encampments, and broadcasting what they see. Here we offer a sample of news stories that chronicle this engagement. Many are the work of high school journalists, writing for their school paper. "It's a real-life movement-history in the making," a Cleveland high school teacher said. We include, too, links to curriculum resources for teaching about the Occupy Movement. |
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College Matters: Supporting Low-Income and First-Generation Students |
| For nine years, WKCD has listened and talked with students nationwide about college. From this work, we have produced a rich set of resources for first-generation and low-income students on how to make it to college and succeed once there. All of these resources are student-to-student: "near peers" advising those following in their footsteps. They are aimed at the adults who support students on the path to college as much as the students themselves. Here we collect in one place all of our “college matters” materials: books, videos and other media, websites, free downloads. |
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Students as Allies in School Reform (2011): A New Call to Action |
| Eight years ago, with support from MetLife Foundation, WKCD launched "Students as Allies in School Reform." In five cities, we helped students and teachers conduct survey research about their own schools, then supported dialogue and action around their findings. To our amazement, the surveys we used in ’03 have been downloaded more than 150,000 times from WKCD.org! We decided it was time to refresh the surveys—and to invite students and teachers nationwide to join a 2011 call to engage students as stakeholders in improving their schools. |
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Queer Youth Advice for Educators
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| What adult behaviors help LGBT youth maintain their safety and self esteem? How do teachers help them to grow? How can educators learn from the bullying experiences they have endured? Calling on the compelling voices of students themselves, Queer Youth Advice for Educators, by WKCD writer Abe Louise Young, offers concrete and possibly life-saving tips for all adults who are ready to provide lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth with a supportive and equitable learning environment. |
