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The Changing Climate Around Environmental Education in Kentucky Classrooms
How we teach environmental education in Kentucky is crucial not only for our planet, but for the future of our generation.
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An Intimate Conversation with Jefferson County's School Board Candidates
Our schools' primary stakeholders may be too young to vote for those who represent us on our district school boards, but we're note too young to have a voice in the process. Our Youth-Led Virtual Town Hall was centered around ways to make Kentucky schools more equitable. We pushed candidates to share their plans to make resources more accessible to underserved students as well as to better support our district’s educators.
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Should Sixteen be the New Voting Age?
Today is Election Day and we, as 16 and 17-year-olds, do not have the right to vote for matters that impact us more than anyone.
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Sound Off: Our Hopes For The New Edu
Click into The New Edu inaugural Journalist Fellows sounding off on their hopes for The New Edu.
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A setback to education: How Attacks on Critical Race Theory Harm Education in Ohio County
A rural Kentucky student examines how the critical race theory debate is playing out in our schools and communities.
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What is School For?
Members of the KSVT Press Corps reflect on the structural level of what school means. Read a lightly edited roundtable transcript from September 26, 2022.
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We Need Students To Tell The Stories of Our Schools
Students should have a say in their schools, which means they should have a say in how issues of education justice are shared, reported, and written about, too. That's why KSVT is launching The New Edu.
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Schools should be a safe place to embrace who we are
How racial and gender stereotyping hinder student success
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Stereotypes have surrouned me everywhere
Why we need to do more to confront unconscious bias in school
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I believe we can do better
How the burdens of dyslexia set students up for a lifetime of inequity
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Schools Should Be Safe for All Students
A middle schooler’s take on how to improve the learning climate for LGBTQ+ youth
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Does attire really affect the way we learn?
Undressing gender discrimination in school dress codes
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Students mobilize to fight teacher gag bills
On Wednesday, January 12th, Kentucky students and educators gathered at the Capitol in Frankfort to speak out against two legislative bills that could disrupt classroom conversations about ideas having to do with what many people consider core elements of their identities.
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As a white student, i feel like i am missing something.
How a lack of racial diversity hurts all students
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Inequity will follow me until the day i die.
Why we need to address racial discrimination in gifted and talented programs early
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