WASHINGTON, D.C. — On a Friday morning in March, students and teachers gathered at a hip hotel here to reimagine what their high schools could be. The delegation from Calvin Coolidge High School was thinking big — as in, global. For months, they’d been crafting plans to reframe their school’s curriculum around the United Nations sustainable development goals, 17 lofty targets that world leaders named as priorities in 2015 that include...
For the first time ever, we’re inviting educators as well as young people to participate in a call-out, and we’re hoping that you can help us create a vivid portrait of secondary school today, told by those living through it.Here are the basics:Anyone who works in any capacity in a secondary school, or is a student over 13 who is attending one, is invited to contribute.As with our original Coming of Age contest — the blueprint for this...
Did any of the news surprise you?Not really. I think we got lucky in that regard because we prepared for a decision knowing the court's makeup and the fact that it was willing to overturn precedent. We had predicted that the justices would essentially overturn the affirmative action rulings that the court had made earlier. There was some guesswork that went into that, but also a lot of reporting.Does the summer limit your access on college...
