Newark Students Have Made the City Their Classroom Newark Students Have Made the City Their Classroom
Students in Newark, New Jersey, walked out of class earlier this month in protest of the “One Newark” plan to privatize the district’s schools. A substitute teach...
Sep 26, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation and Nyle Fort
Okonto: Reality Check Okonto: Reality Check
Yale University student Patricia Okonto delves into the intersection of race and student life.
Sep 18, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation
What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 9/18/14? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 9/18/14?
What are interns reading for the week of 9/18/14?
Sep 18, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation
How Art Inspires Change How Art Inspires Change
The Nation and the Center for Community Change partnered together for an essay contest in which young people were asked to submit a photo they found meaningful and an essay ex...
Sep 17, 2014 / Books & the Arts / StudentNation and Faron Manuel
To Start the Semester, Students Walk Out, Shut Down Traffic and ‘Carry That Weight’ To Start the Semester, Students Walk Out, Shut Down Traffic and ‘Carry That Weight’
Will Koch-allied trustees, state-appointed superintendents or President Obama ever listen to students?
Sep 15, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Overturned Death Penalty Conviction Sparks Debate in North Carolina Overturned Death Penalty Conviction Sparks Debate in North Carolina
The release of a wrongfully imprisoned death row inmate has opened up a bipartisan conversation around punitive justice in North Carolina.
Sep 11, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation
What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 9/11/14? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 9/11/14?
What are interns reading for the week of 9/11/14?
Sep 11, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation
From Ferguson to Miami, a Generation Demands Justice From Ferguson to Miami, a Generation Demands Justice
Michael Brown, John Crawford, Reefa Hernandez—and a national youth movement.
Aug 29, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation
Girls Speak Out Against Sexist School Dress Codes Girls Speak Out Against Sexist School Dress Codes
Young women are fed up with being pressured to curate their appearance and, by extension, others’ potentially lecherous thoughts about them. They’re fighting back.
Aug 27, 2014 / StudentNation / Cecilia D’Anastasio and StudentNation
What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 08/22/14? What Are ‘Nation’ Interns Reading the Week of 08/22/14?
This Week: Republicans and the new AP US History exam, Bangladesh and the global warming crisis, and the history of division in St. Louis.
Aug 22, 2014 / StudentNation / StudentNation