By Orik Ehren, age 13 All over the world the schools of hundreds of millions of students are closed due to the coronavirus. Their educations have been moved online or, in many cases, suspended entirely. Keeping students away from school does positively...
by Juan Cortes, Age 10 and IndyKids Staff Some drag queens around the United States are taking to a different kind of stage: one at the front of a public library. The Drag Queen Story Hour, which started in 2015 in San Francisco, are events which see drag queens...
“We don’t think about the experiences our young people go through before they come into contact with the system.” – Hernan Carvente When Hernan Carvente was just 16 years old he was sentenced to six years in prison. He spent four years...
By Andrew Garcia, age 11 and Indykids Staff After a historic six-day strike, Los Angeles teachers won their demands for smaller class sizes, a nurse for every public school, a librarian for every middle and high school in the district, a six percent pay increase and a...
By KALLEN FENSTER, age 9 Protesters demand fair access to affordable education in Pretoria, South Africa. PHOTO: Paul Saad/Flickr South African student activists returned to class following weeks of protesting for South African President Jacob Zuma to stop raising...
By SOPHIA ROTHMAN, age 12, and IndyKids staff In December 2015, President Obama signed into place the Every Student Succeeds Act. PHOTO: Wikimedia Commons On December 10, 2015, President Obama released a new education policy called the Every Student Succeeds Act. The...
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