“It’s not really the students. It’s teachers. They look at you like you are dumb. They just expect less of you. They don’t push you up. They don’t communicate with the kids…” — Focus Group Report
This website is dedicated to the valuable lessons we can learn from students’ own experiences about how to create better schools. 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.
A collaboration of the Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative (TLPI), Harvard Law School and Massachusetts Advocates for Children (MAC). LEARN MORE