ConnectHear: A Hope For The Deaf Community
ConnectHear is the vision of three young leaders and activists from Pakistan. They use the very thing that “intimidates” most people as a way to empower the hearing-impaired individuals...
There’s A Crisis In Black Education That We Need To Talk About
Contrary to popular belief, getting an education is not just about books and grades- students are also learning how to respectfully and actively take part in the life of...
For Your Back-To-School List: Fairtrade Purchases And Ethics Education
Amidst end-of-summer insanity, it can be easy to lose ourselves in preparations for the year ahead. Between work and school, there never seems to be enough time to get...
Press Freedom is Going Downhill
On April 24, Reporters Without Borders published the 2018 World Press Freedom Index, an annual ranking that the NGO releases of different country’s relationships with media outlets. While this index is...
At Catholic Schools, Sex Ed Turns Into Shaming Young Girls
In my opinion, sex-ed is one of the most useful things which should be taught in school since kids reach puberty, and even earlier. But bad sexual education is...
I’m White In An Arab Country And I’m Sick Of The Islamophobia
Dear Islamophobes, I’m a Westerner living in an Arab country and I’m sick of the ignorance. Spending my most intense teenage years split between Italy and the Middle East...
America Continues to Ignore Mental Health
it is certain that the school provided an apathetic atmosphere that allowed each student to carry a firearm inside the building and shoot themselves without intervention.
Tensions Are Rising in Romania and No One’s Talking About It
This week, on Tuesday morning, a state of disturbance appeared in Romania due to the new public wage law and the fiscal changes brought about as a result of this....
The Truth About Discrimination in the College Admissions Process
In 2015, 64 Asian-American groups filed a complaint against Harvard University for what they claimed to be discrimination in the college admissions process. Some may argue that the groups are simply...
The Pressures of Education in Europe and the U.S.
This week in my AP Spanish class, we talked about the differences between universities in Spanish-speaking countries versus the ones in North America. For example, campus life in Spanish...
