Here are some cool museums to try across the country.

Wen Chen, 12, of Middle School 131 in New York City’s Chinatown, wrote this essay about her first best friend. She is from Bielefeld, Germany.

October was a noisy month at Gallaudet University, a school for deaf and hard-of-hearing students in Washington, DC. A few months after new president Dr. Jane K. Fernandes was appointed she was voted out of the position by the board of trustees, in response to student protests.

We are 4th grade students at PS 87 in Manhattan, New York City. In school we discussed how video games were being used by the military to get people to sign up for the military. To get more soldiers, the military has been using video games to trick people into thinking that war is fun.

The true history of Thanksgiving shows some embarrassing facts. The very same Pilgrims who shared the “first” Thanksgiving later took over Native American lands, robbed them of all of their valuables, enslaved many young Native Americans, and then killed the rest.

On average, around the country we spend about $900 less per student each year in the school districts with more poor and minority students than we do in schools with more wealthy and white students. In 1993 the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, CFE, (fiscal means money, and equity means fairness) launched a lawsuit against the state of New York demanding more money for schools. Groups like CFE all over the country are fighting for fair distribution of resources for education.

In the United States, not all schools are created equal. Some students in New York City have painted a picture of an education system that is fair.

Many students in New York City start school without speaking any English. But knowing and remembering a first language helps students to learn English and do better in school.

This year marks the first year that all New York City public school students in grades three to eight are required to take state tests in English Language Arts (ELA) and math.

A debate is a discussion of different viewpoints on a particular subject. To have a debate at your school you might: