Category: Front Page
What Not to Wear: A Yearbook Edition
For many rising seniors, the summer leading into the school year is one of preparing to finally graduate: drafting college applications, studying for standardized tests, and taking senior portraits. For Grace Goble at Maine South High School in Park Ridge,...
Behind the Story: Debating sexism on a Kansas high school campus
In Overland Park, Kan., students don’t talk about sexism, says rising senior Rachel Pickett. At Blue Valley West High School, Pickett’s story on sexism within the debate team spurred controversy among the student body, with one student setting fire to...
Speaking Up: Fellows at FIU
The inaugural class of Active Voice fellows presented their projects on a panel at the Lillian Lodge Kopenhaver Center at Florida International University on April 20, 2017. After a ten-month long process, watch Darlene Aderoju, Nashwa Bawab, Shine Cho, Sophie...
Introducing the 2017-18 Fellows
We are proud to announce our second annual class of Active Voice fellowship recipients. Active Voice is designed both to help diversify the field of First Amendment advocacy and to build a support system for high-school journalists struggling to exercise...
“Graduation day” for the next generation of media leaders
By Frank LoMonte As an inquisitive tween growing up in the Los Angeles suburbs, Shine Cho regularly defied the family rule of silence at the dinner table. “I always asked questions. I really wanted to know about current events. I...
Opinion: Stop holding their hands
Practicing as a free press isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. It taught me to be too responsible and too aware of how my actions affect others. It allowed me to cover stories on topics that the public needs...