Student Voice
Essays from students about education, mental health and more issues affecting young people today
News
Gen Z: New Study Finds Concerns of Mentorship and Making Labor Valuable Among the Youngest and Most Diverse Generation
Featured
Pandemic Yearbook: 9 Students — in Their Own Words — on Life, Learning and Loss as the Coronavirus Pushed into a Second Turbulent Year
Opinion
Mask Confusion in Schools: Pandemic Offers an Enduring Lesson in Privilege
Opinion
Bumblefoot and ‘Tiny Peep Sounds’: How Remote School Gave This Fifth-Grader Time for an Education in Chickens and Ducks
Opinion
Young Love in the Time of COVID-19
Opinion
Student’s View: Why My Student Congress Filed an Amicus Brief With the Supreme Court to Support a Cheerleader’s First Amendment Rights
Opinion
A Student’s View: Teachers Form Unions to Negotiate How Their Schools Operate. Why Shouldn’t Students Do the Same?
Analysis
Analysis: Americans Didn’t Vote for Education in 2020. Students Are Determined to Make Sure They Do Next Time
Opinion
Pandemic Notebook: For Students from Low-Income, Immigrant Families, Getting into College Can Feel like Winning the Golden Ticket. The Pandemic Has Only Raised the Stakes
Opinion
Student Voice: ‘Canvas’ Bitmojis, Fascinating Teacher Digressions and Other Reasons to Be Hopeful as Virtual School Starts Anew
Featured
Pandemic Notebook: 13 Students Across America Write About COVID-19, Their Disrupted School Year and the Disorienting New Normal
Opinion
My Mom Is 55, Black, and Just Returned to Work in a Doctor’s Office in New York City. That’s Why I’m Scared
Opinion
Student Voice: Decades After My Great-Grandmother Was Tear-Gassed, Taking Fresh Stock of the Land of the ‘Free’
News
On His Way to Top HBCU, Former Problem Student and ‘Distinguished Gentleman’ Lost Major Milestone Celebration to Coronavirus
Opinion
Student Voice: Student, Sibling, Mentor, Mess. Pandemic Has Me Juggling Roles and Craving Sleep
Opinion
Student Voice: Two Weeks, Five Siblings and One Working Laptop. How I Navigated the Nation’s Largest School System in Search of an iPad and What It Taught Me About America’s Digital Divide
Opinion
Teaching Nemo: How I Learned to Juggle Community College While Instructing My 9-Year-Old Nephew From Home
Opinion
Worst. Summer Break. Ever. How One D.C. Third-Grader Is Bracing for the Pain of Quarantine Without the Pleasure of School