Student Voices

This District Wants To Shut Down a Public Charter’s Expansion. District Parents Don’t Agree.

Franklin Township School District and local parents are unaligned. The district has been trying to halt the expansion of an…

4 years ago

Meet Chika OgbuokIrI, Seventh Grade Poet at Camden’s KIPP Lanning Square Middle School!

Chika OgbuokIrI is a seventh grader at KIPP Lanning Square Middle School in Camden. Yet another Poet Laureate in the…

4 years ago

Meet Newark’s Own Amanda Gorman, Seventh-Grade Poet Makayla Brown

A month ago, as Amanda Gorman shared her beautiful prose during President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ inauguration,…

4 years ago

No Retakes, No Extensions: A Student’s Open Letter To Incoming Education Secretary Miguel Cardona

This is a post by Gregory Wickham, a New York City student. He is the son of best-selling writer Alina Adams, who…

4 years ago

KIPP Solves Working Parents' Remote Learning Problems: Evening Instruction!

Via CNN, KIPP NJ has figured out a novel way to accommodate parents who work days yet are concerned about…

4 years ago

NJ Student’s Letter to New Ed Commissioner: My Teacher Helps Me Gather the Courage to Speak in a Space That Prefers My Silence.

This letter first appeared in The 74. Dear Dr. Angelica Allen-McMillan, Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Education, I…

4 years ago

Yes, I Dropped Out of Stuyvesant High School to Homeschool Myself

This is a post by Gregory Wickham, a New York City student. He is the son of best-selling writer Alina…

4 years ago

NJ Students Beg For Respite From Eight Hours of Screens Per Day.

South Brunswick High School students have started a petition begging the School Board and  Superintendent Scott Feder to change the…

4 years ago

NJ High School Student Explains How “Distance Learning Is A Bust.”

Carina Pizarro is a high school student in Bridgewater. Her essay appears in InsiderNJ's publication, "The Covid-19 Crisis: An InsiderNJ…

4 years ago

As New Jersey Schools Struggle to Go Virtual, Here’s What We Can Learn From New Egypt High School.

As COVID-19 continues to spread across New Jersey, “long term school closures are inevitable,” said Governor Phil Murphy on Friday. All…

5 years ago