Lessons learned: Tips on how to have an effective protest at school
Our community pegged us with our stereotype yet again: a subpar school full of delinquents. But that picture changed just two weeks later.
OPINION: After Parkland, it takes only a few words to cause a whirlwind of fear
At the restaurant where I work, I see guns all the time, on a customer’s hip or under his shoulder as I clear the tables. It’s so common I don’t think to look twice.
But on Feb. 23, nine days after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, my high school was the scene of a reported threat that could make even the proudest gun-toting Walla Wallan's stomach drop.
#enough: High school students step out to call attention to school safety, gun control
Students across the nation put down their pencils, pushed in their chairs and walked out of their classrooms to advocate against violence and to honor the victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting in Parkland, Florida one month ago.
As @POTUS reviews prototypes, high school students DREAM up the wall
Suppose you had $18 billion to build or reinforce the border between the U.S. and Mexico. What kind of wall would you dream up? We invite you to part in Global Student Square's "Students DREAM up the Wall" news contest.
High school threats on the rise nationwide in wake of Parkland shooting
Since the Feb. 14 massacre that left 17 people dead and dozens more injured, at least 985 schools across the country have received 797 threats, according to The Educator’s School Safety Network. Between Feb. 15. and March 1, U.S. schools averaged more than 70 threats per day. In more than half the threats, guns were found.
Rio residents balance hope, sadness as Brazil battles corruption, violence
[Topics such as gang violence and death may distress some readers.] The past two weeks in Brazil have been especially turbulent, with violence at the annual Carnaval festival, Rio police moving on favelas and Brazil President Michel Temer announcing more military crackdowns may take place in weeks ahead. Correspondent Munchenbach conducted and translated interviews with sources in Brazil for this story.
Goodbye PyeongChang, hello Paris — city of light already working on 2024 Summer Olympics
If you were to go to most stadiums in the world today, you would expect thousands of people packed into a large, but cramped space.Now imagine a family excursion to the stadium of the future: Once the family goes through the front gates, Mom heads off to go shopping while Dad sits down to watch the nail-biting soccer game. Tomorrow’s stadium would be complete with wind turbines, reusable water storage and a complete ecosystem on the roof.
Three days after trauma, Parkland students kick off national movement, march for stronger gun control
“(O)ur politicians abandoned us by failing to keep guns out of schools,” Kasky wrote. “But this time, my classmates and I are going to hold them to account.
More than designer babies: New genome editing study aimed at creating cancer “killers”
An ambitious study expected to begin this month at the University of Pennsylvania hopes to prove that there's more to genome editing than creating designer babies.
Call her eco-friendly: Six questions for the Green Climate Fund’s Carolina Fuentes
On that cold, rainy November day, Fuentes expressed optimism about the challenge of climate change, talking about the need to preserve green space in Songdo and her own favorite garden back in her native Mexico.