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OTHER WKCD WEBSITES SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Students as Allies in School POPULAR WKCD PUBLICATIONS (PDFS] A Guide to Creating Teen- Cultural Conversations through Creative Writing Documenting Immigration Stories First Ask, Then Listen: How Your Students Can Help You Teach Them Better Making Writing Essential to Profiles of Politically Active Youth Queer Youth Advice for Educators The Schools We Need: Creating Small High Schools That Work for Us | Youth Research for Action Grant Competition from WKCD| OCTOBER 9, 2014
“I liken most high school education to a donut. It’s missing the center, the chance for students to apply their minds to issues that really matter, to practice skills they truly need to be successful, to turn their idealism into action.” — Bernice Fedestin, Brighton High School ’05, Brighton, MA Absent from too much instruction in today's U.S. public high schools are the very things success demands in the 21st century workplace: problem solving, effective communication, informed opinions that take in diverse points of view, the ability to exercise independent judgment while working in groups and across disciplines. Missing, too, is a view of young people that encourages and welcomes their role as innovators, community builders, and contributors to social and intellectual capital. Eleven years ago, WKCD launched a three year national initiative called Student Research for Action that aimed to send a different set of messages: that complex problem solving, independent judgment, and teamwork among students and teachers merit a place in every high school’s curriculum; that what happens inside a school’s walls should connect to the world outside; that young people have the capacity to reflect, analyze, and create new knowledge that can then improve their schools and communities. With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, we awarded 49 grants, in amounts ranging from $500 to $4,750, to student research teams in 52 schools across 17 states. The results were bountiful: books, videos, policy reports and position papers on topics ranging from the experiences of immigrant workers to inequalities between urban and suburban schools. We’re delighted to announce that this remarkable initiative is back! And we are opening it up to youth outside school as well, giving rise to a new name: Youth Research for Action. How this initiative works Youth Research for Action will award, on a competitive basis, grants of up to $2,000 to youth-designed and -led action research projects across the U.S. The competition is open to teams of public high school students nationwide, along with youth in community-based organizations.
To be eligible for consideration the project must:
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