Student Voice

As I went through high school, I became increasingly aware that I needed to take advantage of the time, as it was the beginning of building my professional

I am a KIPP alumnus, former teacher, a life-long KIPPster and I am in full support of KIPP’s decision to change their motto, “Work hard. Be nice.”  Last we

With schools gone virtual and in-person feedback from students no longer possible, listening to students can feel harder than ever. There is always an inhe

Before we get started, I want you to really take a moment and imagine how it feels to walk in my shoes for a day: I’m a Queer, Hmong, Asian American Woman.

Imagine you are a mature, intelligent middle-school student who finds it difficult to write anything—numbers or letters—on paper in a way that makes sense.

Public schools in Washington, D.C., shut down in response to the novel coronavirus outbreak at the end of the school day on March 13, 2020. They are curren

AP (advanced placement) classes are designed for students to fail.  In 2018, just over 50% of New York City public school students who took one or more AP

I never thought I would attend a charter school until my mother decided to enroll me into YES Prep Public Schools in Houston. At the time I didn’t know wha

Juan moved to California from Central America last year. When he first began school, he couldn’t recite numbers in English and could only count to 20 in Sp