Education

VIDEO: No such thing as choice in U.S. public education? Check out Pender Early College High School

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos made headlines again this week with comments on the need for more school choice for high school students, saying that public schools often don't offer enough options and proposing charter schools or vouchers for private schools instead. But public school districts often do offer choices, as GSS correspondent James Stars shows in this report.
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Read this: A citizen journalist’s guide to covering dissent

If you're covering events like this for the first time as a student or citizen journalist, check out "A Citizen Journalist's Guide to Covering Dissent," by GSS executive director Beatrice Motamedi. You'll find tips on what to bring, how to prep your cellphone, which mobile apps to download, plus hotlines and help on navigating your legal rights.
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As Trump becomes @POTUS, some still debate role of social media, fake news, memes in his victory

Not surprisingly, a Stanford study released on Nov. 21 found that most teenagers were not able to distinguish between online opinions/sponsored content and news. This, combined with the scope of false articles that rippled through Facebook in the weeks and months prior to the election, has led some to wonder if fake news directly affected voters’ choices and students’ opinions.
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PHOTOS: Bali students create, cover, critique Conference of Youth summit in Morocco

Members of GS Green Generation, a Green School program that focuses on environmental activism and journalism, networked, performed flash mobs and set up a booth to describe Green School initiatives including Bye Bye Plastic Bags, a campaign that succeeded in persuading Bali to outlaw plastic bags as of 2018, and BioBus, a waste-oil recycling program.
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