Firsthand
A national student reporting initiative on K-12 schools
Public education is being redefined in real time.
Classrooms are experimenting with new ways of learning while navigating everything from AI to teacher shortages. Yet, in most conversations about the future of K–12 education, students themselves are rarely heard.
That’s a missed opportunity. As journalist Jonathan Kozol once wrote:
“I have almost always found that children are a great deal more reliable in telling us what actually goes on in public school than many of the adult experts who develop policies that shape their destinies.”
At The Bell, we believe student voices don’t just bring us closer to the truth, they move people to act. This is the philosophy of Firsthand, a new editorial initiative that will feature student student reporting from coast to coast on the most pressing issues in American schools.
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