Our Mission

To Our Readers Everywhere:


We, the students of the the Honors Psychology Program here at Temple University, in keeping with the philosophy of our program, which states that we are to be not merely consumers of knowledge but knowledge transformers, and the goal of our program, which is to "engage, empower and energize students by having them grapple with key issues within subareas of psychology" and by extension within the wider context of the world in which we live and learn, have created this blog for the purpose of voicing our ideas regarding controversial topics in American education, including but not limited to, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the Achievement Gap, standardized testing, educational reform, and state and international standards.

As students of the early twenty-first century, we are the subjects of sweeping changes which are fundamentally altering the landscape of our schools and the definition of learning. We intend to use this blog to relate some of our own experiences in the face of such changes as the implementation of NCLB, which coincided with our high school years.

For too long, we, the students of this nation, have stood by as the debates have raged around us. The voice of the students has been marginalized from the roundtable of public discussion on the future of education, and this is a BIG problem, one which must be promptly addressed. Our blog is part of an attempt to do just that--to reassert the right of students to speak out on the matters which affect them the most. Our hope is that our stories will be appreciated and those who are listening will learn from them.