ERIC Number: EJ1248257
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Feb
Pages: 5
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ISSN: ISSN-0276-928X
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Students as Education Partners: Kentucky Student Team Bridges School Policy and Practice
Sippy, Emanuelle; Belin, Rachel
Learning Professional, v41 n1 p20-23, 27 Feb 2020
Young people have long been on the front lines of pushing for systemic change. The Prichard Committee Student Voice Team, consisting of 100 self-selected students from across Kentucky, works to improve schools and society. This article describes the Student Voice Team, an extension of the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, an organization that has been mobilizing citizens to improve education in Kentucky for nearly 40 years. Student voice is about recognizing that students are the primary stakeholders of their education and creating space for them to have agency in addressing significant issues that affect them, their schools, and their communities. Enlisting students as education improvement partners at the school, district, and state levels engages students in the civic life of schools and communities. It demonstrates what it can look like when students do democracy in addition to studying it.
Descriptors: School Policy, Educational Improvement, Student Participation, Democracy, Participative Decision Making, School Safety, High School Students
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Kentucky
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