At this year's Education National Summit, students were able to have their voices heard.
This article from Scholastic News shares the story of students having the opportunity to talk about issues that so closely affect them. These include technology in the classrooms, standardized testing, and one size- fits all learning strategies.
"It's kind of odd, isn't it, that we're three years in and this is the first time we thought ‘Oh yeah, we should ask students what they think,'" spoken by Melissa Harris- Perry, moderator of the event.
The broad cast was shown on MSNBC, reaching a wide variety of audiences. This event informed the public to the real problems and concerns that students deal with in modern day education.
The article does a really good job of conveying the most important highlights of the conference, while also being very informative. Several quotes were recorded from both the children involved and the adults in charge of running the event.
http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3757550
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