Seemingly every New York City high school used to have a student newspaper. That’s what we learned on our trip earlier this year to the Center for Brooklyn History’s archived high school newspaper collection. Today, few NYC high schools have student publications of any kind.
What happened? Where did all the school newspapers go? To find some answers, we sat down with Keith Hefner, founder of Youth Communication, a nonprofit that has been publishing high school students’ stories for more than 40 years.
Then, we meet the adult and students behind Press Pass NYC, an organization dedicated to bringing student newspapers back. It’s an ambitious mission. What will it take for them to succeed?
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P.S. Weekly: An Exclusive Interview with Chancellor David Banks
P.S. Weekly: A High Schooler Working at Bloomberg — Plus “Shotgunning” College Applications
P.S. Weekly: Students Speak Out About Special Education
P.S. Weekly: A New York Chapter on the Banned Books Controversy
P.S. Weekly: Migrant Students Navigate a New Reality
(Re)introducing P.S. Weekly
Instagram, Cyberbullying and Free Speech at a Queens School
Missing Voices: Part 4 – Where Do We Go from Here?
Missing Voices: Part 3 – Trials and Triumphs
Missing Voices: Part 1 — Tale of Two School Newspapers
Ep. 10: Student Homelessness in a City of Riches
Ep. 9: The AP Course Divide
Ep. 8: The Price of Creativity
Ep. 7: Food Fight — The Battle for Better School Lunches
Ep. 6: Locked Up Phones
Ep. 5: Responding to Racism in Schools
Ep. 4: Examining the Regents
Ep. 3: The FAFSA Frustration
Ep. 2: We Need to Talk About Sex
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