The new website is now live. Please visit:

Students-Speak.org

A Project for Student Voice in Educational Decision Making

Decisions about schooling are often made without listening deeply to students themselves. But students are in the best position to understand what they need in order to do well in school. The Students Speak website provides a platform that uplifts students’ voices and showcases their actions and advocacy so their ideas can influence educational decision making.

On this new website you will find descriptions of actions and advocacy projects undertaken by students, summaries of academic research on the importance of students’ voices, and occasional conversations with students about timely issues and how they relate to learning. This website features students actively participating in making real change.

This website is in the process of being created by law student attorneys and their supervisors at the Education Law Clinic of Harvard Law School. The Clinic is part of a larger project, called the Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative  (TLPI), which is a collaboration between Harvard Law School and a non-profit child advocacy organization in Boston, MA called Massachusetts Advocates for Children (MAC).