StudentNation

StudentNation is a program of the Nation Fund for Independent Journalism and is made possible through generous funding from the Puffin Foundation. StudentNation focuses on first-person accounts from student activists, organizers, and journalists and has helped launch the careers of contributors to The New York TimesVoxBusiness InsiderTeen Vogue, the Guardian, and more. If you’re a student and you have an article idea, please send pitches and questions to [email protected]

Why Arizona’s Ethnic Studies Crisis Should Matter to All Educators: Interview With Dr. Rudy Acuna Why Arizona’s Ethnic Studies Crisis Should Matter to All Educators: Interview With Dr. Rudy Acuna

Award-winning historian and educator Dr. Rodolfo “Rudy” Acuña discusses the Tea Party’s chilling attack on his work.

Aug 10, 2011 / StudentNation / Jeff Biggers

20 Percent of Veterans in College Have Planned to Commit Suicide

20 Percent of Veterans in College Have Planned to Commit Suicide 20 Percent of Veterans in College Have Planned to Commit Suicide

A new study says colleges are unprepared to educate the more than one million veterans expected to enter institutions of higher learning in the next decade. 

Aug 9, 2011 / StudentNation / Kevin S. Donohoe

Chilean Students Strike for Education Reform

Chilean Students Strike for Education Reform Chilean Students Strike for Education Reform

A national strike by university and high school students is currently under way in Chile to press their demands for reform of the education system.

Aug 9, 2011 / StudentNation / The Nation

Inspiring Students to Enter Federal Service Inspiring Students to Enter Federal Service

 

Aug 8, 2011 / StudentNation / Zachary Newkirk

Nation Interns Choose the Week’s Most Important (and Undercovered) Stories

Nation Interns Choose the Week’s Most Important (and Undercovered) Stories Nation Interns Choose the Week’s Most Important (and Undercovered) Stories

Every week, Nation interns cut through the echo chamber and choose one good article in their area of interest that they feel should receive more attention. 

Aug 4, 2011 / StudentNation / The Nation

Memo to Frank Bruni: Women Have Been Devastated by the Economic Downturn Memo to Frank Bruni: Women Have Been Devastated by the Economic Downturn

Times columnist Frank Bruni ignores the dramatic toll the economic downturn has taken on women. 

Aug 4, 2011 / StudentNation / Kevin S. Donohoe

Don’t Have Sex—You Will Get Pregnant and Die

Don’t Have Sex—You Will Get Pregnant and Die Don’t Have Sex—You Will Get Pregnant and Die

Sexuality education in the United States has evolved to teach everything besides sex itself.

Aug 2, 2011 / StudentNation / Anna Lekas Miller

Illinois Passes Bill For Undocumented Youth, Makes An Even Dozen State-Level DREAM Acts Illinois Passes Bill For Undocumented Youth, Makes An Even Dozen State-Level DREAM Acts

Yesterday, Gov. Pat Quinn (D) signed the Illinois DREAM Act into law.

Aug 2, 2011 / StudentNation / Micah Uetricht

HALTing the DREAM HALTing the DREAM

Rarely do two bills on the same issue appear in Congress with such diametrically opposed names and policy goals as the DREAM and HALT Acts.  

Aug 1, 2011 / StudentNation / Zachary Newkirk

Nation Interns Choose the Week’s Most Important (and Undercovered) Stories Nation Interns Choose the Week’s Most Important (and Undercovered) Stories

Every week, Nation interns try to cut through the echo chamber and choose one good article in their area of interest that they feel should receive more attention.  ...

Jul 28, 2011 / StudentNation / The Nation

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