Students as Writers: Essential School Students on Education and Activism

Notes on this Issue

Letter from Jill Davidson, Horace editor

Feature Articles

Students as Writers: What We Can Learn
by Jill Davidson

Listening to Students
by Laura Flaxman

"The Perfect High School"
by Kimberly Hill, Empowerment College Preporatory School

Change with Our Help and Change for Our Sake
by Jurion Jaffee, Harmony School

Inclusion in a Different Sense
by Isaura Jimenez, Odyssey: The Essential School

It Had to Begin with Me
by Caroline Ensler, School of the Future

Learning in the Real World
by Ilyssa Buffalo, Vicki Kahn and Ashleigh Read, City High School

Small Schools = Better World
by Coral Ann Schmid, Eagle Rock School and Professional Development Center

Nation Building: Out with the Old and In with the New
by Michael Sawyer, Academy of Citizenship and Empowerment

The Shelter of Leadership
by Maria Walczuk, Connections Public Charter School

Why I Am a Strong Believer in My School
by Nnamdi Nweazeapu, Capital City Public Charter School

My Educational Activism
by Emma Brightbill, Yarmouth High School

Meaningful Learning for the "Real World"
by Tina Cassidy, Quest High School

"Student as Worker" Applied Outside the Classroom
by Lou Vargas, Global Connections High School

What Does Freedom Mean at the Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School?
by Amanda Griffin and Kayla Reeves, Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School

Katrina Volunteer
by Julius Rainey, Urban Academy Laboratory High School

Resources

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