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STUDENT VOICES: When you’re a teenager you feel like an outsider already

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school system is a “mess.” A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. Lilianna Salcedo, a 10th-grader at USC Hybrid High School in Los Angeles. How would you describe your school?

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“We’re really underwater here:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling, Part II

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My eighth grader, he does not possess the ability to be at middle school with almost 40 kids in his classroom and focus. Theater is a great place for that, because it is not therapy by any stretch of the imagination, but we do explore our humanity and we explore that through stories. Credit: Image provided by Katina Harris.