About the Student Voice Forum
The Student Voice Forum is a space for students to share feedback about their experiences in Kentucky schools and constructive ideas about how to make them better. The Forum is hosted by the Kentucky Student Voice Team, which consists of over 100 self-selected students from elementary school through college who work as education research, policy, and advocacy partners to improve Kentucky schools.
Commenting & Conduct
To ensure successful debate and discussion on the Student Voice Forum, we have a few rules, guidelines, and opportunities to contribute:
Readers with Medium accounts can comment on Forum pieces.
Medium is a blogging platform that links through Twitter. If you want to sign up for Medium, click “sign up” above. The platform allows users to respond either at the end of the story or by highlighting a specific line and clicking the comment button on the pop-up. Responses are publicly attached to your Medium account. Read more about responses here.
We hope that comments will allow a healthy discussion of issues, ideas, and opinions. To ensure that the Forum remains a safe space for student conversation, the Kentucky Student Voice Team will report and remove comments containing profane or otherwise inappropriate content, comments which attack the writer or another person, or comments that generally serve to undermine civil discourse.
If you have any concerns about the conduct of participants in this forum, please email us at editors@studentvoiceforum.org.
Submissions
The Student Voice Forum is a place for every student in Kentucky to share their ideas, opinions, and experiences in education. While we have regular contributors to the Forum, anyone can pitch or submit a post to the editors.
We will accept almost anything related to school culture or education research, policy or advocacy. We just have a few basic guidelines:
- Posts should have a distinctive student voice (either the author’s or that of another student) that pertains in some way to school or education in general.
- Writers should back up any claims with relevant evidence.
- Co-writing is perfectly acceptable.
- Posts should be at least 400 words.
- There should be no inappropriate content, including personal attacks.
Submit your draft post to us at submissions@studentvoiceforum.org. The editors will review your post and help you edit and improve it for publication on the Forum.
Join the Team
Are you interested in writing more regular posts related to the school experience? We’re always looking for student writers to join the Forum Team.
Team Writers commit to writing a post at least once every two months and can write about a variety of education issues or focus on one specific beat or area of interest. We do ask that students interested in becoming a Team Writer submit and publish at least one post to the Forum before applying.
If you’re interested, please email a personal bio and links to your Forum post to editors@studentvoiceforum.org.
Content Disclaimers
The views expressed by the writers in the Forum are entirely their own. They do not represent an endorsement by the Kentucky Student Voice Team.
The Student Voice Forum was created by the Student Voice Team while it was part of the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence. The Prichard Committee is an independent, nonpartisan citizens’ advocacy group working to improve education for Kentuckians of all ages. All articles published before February 9, 2021 also do not represent an endorsement by the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence of the views expressed in those articles.
Copyright
The copyright of all content published on the Student Voice Forum is owned by the author(s), unless otherwise noted. By submitting an article for publication, authors grant the Kentucky Student Voice Team and by extension Medium a non-exclusive worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable license to use all copyright rights for the article.
Articles may be reproduced in limited quotations and other fair uses permitted under United States copyright law, including complete reproduction for educational purposes.
Email us at editors@studentvoiceforum.org. Learn more about the Kentucky Student Voice Team.
