By Marie Gardiner - This week, two annoyances collided. With shades of a Shakespearean farce, this is a play of three acts.Act I: Getty, a highly popular st...
12-year-old Leah from Florida is the daughter of undocumented immigrant parents. This is a speech she gave at a "Families Belong Together" rally in Washington, ...
By Lauren Book, M.S. Ed, Founder/CEO - When I was little, I wanted to be a "weather girl" (meteorologist). I thought that would be the best job ever and I would...
Fact: women make up less than 4% of skilled laborers in the U.S. construction industry (9% of the industry, overall). "It’s an unacceptable imbalance that has e...
Maura Collins is bullied every single day. But not by other students, Maura has "a bully in her mind". That’s how this seventh grader equates living with anxiet...
By Debbie Augenthaler - My father was a Vietnam veteran who suffered from PTSD. A part of me always grieves for him, for how he suffered and how his illness aff...
Last month, Havana Chapman-Edwards, a 7-year-old who has suffered personal loss due to gun violence, was the only student in her elementary school to walk out i...
In February, 7-year-old Havana Chapman-Edwards, one of the most inspiring girls we know, launched a crowdfunding campaign so she could buy books for kids in a b...