Sequoia Carrillo
Stories
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Education
These Students Grew Up Around Gun Violence. They Decided It Was Time To Talk About It.
D.C. has long struggled with one of the highest rates of gun violence in the country. Three local students talked to their community about losing their loved ones and living with the grief.
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Health
Students Are Going Back To School Without Clarity On COVID-19 Protections
As the delta variant surges, some states are mandating masks in schools, some leave it up to districts, and in states that ban mask wearing in schools, a few districts are ignoring that rule.
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Environment
When Schools Shut Down In Alaska, These Students Went Moose Hunting
In the remote Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region of Alaska, many families practice subsistence hunting to get food on the table. Three students reconnected with that tradition during the pandemic.
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National
When Students In Alaska Switched To At-Home Learning, Something Unexpected Happened
When three students in the Yukon Delta region of Alaska were sent home from school last year something unexpected happened — they reconnected with their family tradition of subsistence hunting.
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Education
The Best Student Podcasts: An 8th-Grade Homage To A School's Unsung Heroes
When these Kentucky students needed a subject for their podcast, they looked to the bright blue office around the corner, where their school's buildings and grounds team is based.
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Education
Family Lore Fact-Check: Finding The Teen Muhammad Ali 'Boxed Along The Way'
For years, Miriam Colvin's grandfather told the story of a boxing match between a young Indiana farm boy and a 14-year-old kid from Kentucky — named Cassius Clay. But was the story true?
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Education
Best In Show: Our Favorite College Podcasts
This year's finalists in the Student Podcast Challenge, College Edition, give us a glimpse at life on, and off, campus.
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National
Can Military Academies Serve As A Road Map For Reopening Colleges?
Mandatory masks, strict discipline and rigorous testing have helped the academies, including West Point and Annapolis, welcome students back to campus. Can other schools learn from their example?
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Education
'I'm Willing To Fight For America': 5 Student Activists On Protesting For Change
COVID-19 closed schools all over the world. But students are still taking the lead in the Black Lives Matter protests. So we ask student activists how they're organizing during the pandemic.