Do You Like School?
Do students at your school seem bored? Do you ever feel bored? If so, when? Why? The authors of the essay you are about to read spent six years studying high schools across the United States. What did they find? They noted that “boredom was pervasive.” They also learned that debate, drama and other extracurriculars…
Making Connections: 53 Teenagers Suggest Creative Ways to Link School Curriculum to the World...
Anieya Archuleta-Valdez, a student from Utah, connects the Op-Doc above with Elie Wiesel’s “Night.” For the runners-up, we are publishing short excerpts from their essays — enough, we hope, to give readers an understanding of why and how the writer connected the two texts. Anieya Archuleta-Valdez, Nuames High School, Layton, Utah: “Night” by Elie Wiesel…
What Are the Most Important Things Students Should Learn in School?
What is the most important thing you have learned in school? How has this knowledge affected your life? How do you think it will help your success in the future? In “The Two Codes Your Kids Need to Know,” Thomas L. Friedman writes: A few years ago, the leaders of the College Board, the folks…
