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High school student from Tennessee takes on Common Core

This video has been making the rounds on social media and garnering a lot of attention, so we thought we’d share it with you and hear what you think. Speaking at a board of education meeting, Ethan...

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Advocacy: Behind the Scenes – Part I #NYSchoolsInPeril

If you attended the advocacy event at Colonie High School on Jan. 30, or read our recap, you would have seen this video that was part of the presentation that night. Hours of footage was shot for the...

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Advocacy: Behind the Scenes – Part V #NYSchoolsInPeril

If you attended the advocacy event at Colonie High School on Jan. 30, or read our recap, you would have seen this video that was part of the presentation that night. Hours of footage was shot for the...

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Kids Speak Week: “Something needs to be done; my future is at stake.”

Today’s Kids Speak Week entry comes from Brittany Hunter, a 10th grader from the Herkimer Central School District. It has been brought to my attention that eight more teachers have been laid off in my...

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Kids Speak Week: Tests – a poem

Today’s Kids Speak Week entry is from Alexander Pan, a fifth grader from Niskayuna Central School District. tests they fight they bite an endless battle scores answers tests tests they might get you...

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POV: Students are fighting for our future

Today’s POV comes to us from Dan Adamek, a senior at Herkimer Junior-Senior High School.  Dan serves as president of the student council, the founder of Students for Fair Funding – New York, and...

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Hundreds pack Colonie High for ‘Save Our Schools’ advocacy event

Watervliet City Schools superintendent Dr. Lori Caplan address local legislators. Stakeholders from school districts around the Capital Region converged Thursday night at Colonie Central High School to...

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POV: “Let me learn – and enjoy the process”

Today’s “Point of View” was submitted by William Schmidt, a student from Schalmont High School. It is the transcript of his remarks given at the “Save Our Schools” advocacy event that took place at...

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SFOS: High school student conducts groundbreaking Alzheimer’s research, wins...

Intel Science Talent Research competition semifinalist Muhammad Ali & Shaker High School Science teacher Nathaniel Covert. Alzheimer’s is a disease that accounts for 60 to 80 percent of dementia...

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