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Kids who walked out see their generation as the one ‘getting things done’ on the gun debate
Ceilidh Kern, a sophomore, and Jaylah Ross, a junior, are two students who participated in the March 14 school walkouts, and are part of a team from more than a dozen of our Student Reporting Labs who are covering the…
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Student walkouts protesting shootings will vary around the country — and so will their schools’ responses
To mark the one-month anniversary of the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, students are planning walkouts around the country for Wednesday. Organizers expect more than 200,000 students in all 50 states will participate. But how schools handle these walkouts…
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Staging walkouts and rallies, students and family members implore lawmakers to end gun bloodshed
As dozens of survivors from the Florida school shooting lobbied the Republican-led Florida legislature for tougher gun control, thousands across the country heeded a call to walk out of classes, massing at Florida’s state capitol, as well as the U.S.
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These students are fed up with going to school scared for their lives
Student-led rallies in support of gun control are picking up momentum in Florida and around the country, in part born out of anger over the easy availability of assault-style weapons. Judy Woodruff gets perspectives from Camille Richter and Jake Bennett,…
The number and complexity of students' demands of administrations is going up -- and some of the items deal with issues typically left to faculty governance.
For the past week, more than a thousand students have walked out of their classes at several schools in Colorado's Jefferson County, protesting proposed changes to curriculum in U.S. History classes.
California Community Colleges Face Dilemmas Amid Tighter Budgets…
Yang Jianli, a student activist at the Tiananmen Square anti-government protests in 1989, now lives in the United States and continues to advocate for human rights 20 years later.
Leading up to the crackdown in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, Wang Dan was one of the most high-profile student activists, spearheading efforts to try to bring democratic change to China's regime.
